Figure 7 Mechanisms of brain damage in experimental pneumococcal meningitis. NF-kB is a transcriptional activator of many genes that encode host factors involved in the pathogenesis of bacterial ...

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Non-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhoea is a rare condition. We describe a case of a 62-year-old woman with pneumococcal bacterial meningitis who later was found to have CSF rhinorrhoea ...

It helps address pneumococcal bacterial infections, including pneumonia and meningitis, for which children under two years of age are most at risk. One of the latest technologies, which was ...

The reduction in the incidence rate of pneumococcal meningitis between 2001 and 2005 in northern France must be confirmed by further local surveillance and by the national observatory of bacterial ...

Pneumococcal vaccination reduces the risk of bacterial meningitis following cochlear implantation, as reported by a recent study published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery journal. Meningitis ...

While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults.

The study authors noted that bacterial meningitis, inflammation of the membranes covering ... The study results, they added, underscore the need to educate parents on the benefits of pneumococcal ...

The Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis receives approximately 90% of all ... W and Y (MenACWY), 115 (1%) for 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) and 66 (1%) for ...

Figure 7 Mechanisms of brain damage in experimental pneumococcal meningitis. NF-kB is a transcriptional activator of many genes that encode host factors involved in the pathogenesis of bacterial ...