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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Meningitis in children"”.
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Use of the PCR technique to diagnose meningitis in children admitted to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
Introduction: Viral meningitis (VM) is more common than bacterial meningitis (BM) and is a self-limiting disease. Clinicians still tend to admit patients with VM and treat them for BM because they fear the morbidity and mortality that is associated with a delay in treating or not treating BM. …
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Profile of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged between 1 and 59 months admitted to the paediatric wards at the UTH, Lusaka
… study on the profile of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged between 1 and 59 months admitted to the paediatric wards at the UTH, Lusaka was carried out in the Department of Paediatrics and Child health, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka from 1 st April 2002 to 31 st December …
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The use of molecular diagnostic methods to improve the detection of the common bacterial and viral causes of community acquired meningitis in children in South Africa
… common due to an absence of the expected CSF findings clearly aligning to bacterial or viral infection. Reduced sensitivity is commonly observed chiefly due to empiric antibiotic treatment leading to bacterial culture negative results. This leads to costly hospital admissions and unnecessarily …
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Bacterial meningitis in neonates and children South Africa
Acute bacterial meningitis is defined as the inflammation of the meninges. It is caused by various bacteria and the specific aetiology is age dependant. In the neonatal period the causative organisms are: Group B streptococci, Gram - negative bacilli (e.g.: E. coli, Klebsiella spp, Enterobacter …
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Force field comparison through computational analysis of capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 19A and F
… for specific molecules under specific conditions in order to be able to predict the behaviour of similar molecular systems, where there is often no experimental data. Coupled with the sheer number available, this makes choosing the appropriate force field a formidable task. For this reason it is …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… based prospective study on Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) in Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… based prospective study on Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) in Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and …