Infectious diseases meningitis

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Adenoviruses, arenaviruses, California encephalitis, coxsackieviruses, cytomegalovirus, dengue fever, eastern equine encephalitis, echoviruses, infectious mononucleosis, Japanese encephalitis, Lyme disease, meningitis, parainfluenza virus, rhinoviruses, bacterial sepsis, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), St Louis encephalitis, upper respiratory infection, Venezuelan encephalitis, and West Nile encephalitis. 

This drug is effective for infections caused by streptococci, gonococci, pneumococci, staphylococci, and also colon bacillus. Sulfacytine is used for pneumonia, cerebral meningitis, staphylococcal and streptococcal sepsis, and other infectious diseases. A synonym of this drug is renoquid. 

Bacteriostatic and bactericidal agents are equivalent for the treatment of most infectious diseases in immunocompetent hosts. Bactericidal agents should be selected over bacteriostatic ones in circumstances in which local or systemic host defenses are impaired. Bactericidal agents are required for treatment of endocarditis and other endovascular infections, meningitis, and infections in neutropenic cancer patients. 

Pestilence is a type of virulent infectious disease caused by heat-toxins, such as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The warm-febrile diseases develop in the body at four levels, referred to as Wei, Qi, Ying and Xue. In pestilence cases,... 

Hoen B, Viel JF, Paquot C et al. (1995) Multivariate approach to differential diagnosis of acute meningitis. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 14 267-274. 

Sejvar, J.J., Tenover, F.C., Stephens, D.S. (2005). Management of anthrax meningitis. Lancet. Infectious Diseases 5 287-95. 

Syrogiannopouios G A, Olsen K D, Reisch J S et al 1987 Dexamethasone in the treatment of experimental Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis. Journal of Infectious Diseases 155 213-219... 

Tuomanen E, Hengstler B, Rich R et al 1987 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents in the therapy for experimental pneumococcal meningitis. Journal of Infectious Diseases 155 985-990... 

Immunology/infectious diseases Diseases affecting the defense mechanisms of the body. Studies in this area include AIDS, auto-immune diseases, bacterial infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, common cold, genital herpes, genital warts, hepatitis, HIV infections, immunosuppressive, influenza, lyme disease, meningitis, parasite and protozoan infections, strep throat, vaccines, viral infections, and others. 

Initial selection of antimicrobial therapy is nearly always empirical, which is the initiation of antimicrobials sometimes prior to documentation of the presence of infection and before the offending organism is identified. Infectious diseases generally are acute, and a delay in antimicrobial therapy may result in serious morbidity or even mortality. An example is the rapidly lethal nature of various forms of meningitis. Thus empirical antimicrobial therapy selection is... 

In contrast to the treatment of other infectious diseases, antibiotic dosages in the treatment of meningitis should be maximized to optimize CNS penetration. 

Because of their hydrophobicity and biocompatibility, zein microspheres are also being investigated as potential drug delivery systems for oral vaccines (Alkermes, 1994). PotentM oral vaccine targets include several infectious diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhea. Applications of OraLease as a drug delivery systems may also be fixrther advanced by the reported bioadhesive properties of zein microspheres (Mathiowitz et a/.,1994). 

Glycoconjugate vaccines are currently in clinical use for preventing meningitis, bacteremia, pneumonia and other infectious disease caused by Hib, Sp (7,10 and 13-valent ) and Nm (4-valent). 

Preseptal celluHtis is a bacterial infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue that may proceed into the orbit. Comphcations of infectious disease of the orbit include orbital abscess, epidural or subdural abscess of the neurocranium, purulent meningitis, and thrombosis of the cavernous sinus (Mueller-Forell and Pitz 2004). 

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