[PDF] Top 20 MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS IN CHILE

... Tests performed for diagnosing reported cases of meningococcal meningitis, Metropolitan Region, X Region, other regions, and total for the country, Chile, 1979.. Metropoli[r] ... See full document

... antibiotics in children with meningo- coccal ...with meningococcal meningitis hospitalized in sequence were stud- ied at the University Hospital of São Paulo University, with the objective of ... See full document

... essential in these ...vaccination in these countries, whereas safety and efficacy, although significant, are less ...situation in many countries in Africa have impeded increases in per ... See full document

... developing in the course of meningococcal disease is uncommon occurring in 5–11% of patients 19, 20 ...arthritis in 10–20% of patients, within 4–7 days from the onset of the ...bacterial ... See full document

... of meningococcal infection and during the convalescence ...ranging in age from 8 months to 8 years, admitted from 1991 to 1993 with a clinical-laboratory diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis, ... See full document

... of meningitis without a rash, neck stiffness, impaired consciousness, and ...lems in the initial case management; thus, it may explain in part the highest case-fatality ...or meningitis with a ... See full document

... Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a major public health and continues to cause substantial mortality and ...frequent in Brazil. The clinical spectrum of IMD is broad (meningitis, ... See full document

... of meningococcal isolates is needed in order to ensure appropriate IMD management and ...surveillance in Poland has revealed a remarkable increase in IMD cases over the last ...changes ... See full document

... activities in various ways—Eric Bertherat and William Perea (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland), Dominique Caugant (NIPH, Oslo, Norway), Mamadou Djin- garey (WHO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), Rana Hajjeh and Nancy ... See full document

... compared in these ...decrease in the number of admissions due to invasive meningococcal disease was observed (period A: ...of meningitis was 41% in period A and 29% in period B ... See full document

... Following a mass vac- cination campaign carried out in mid-August, the out- break was brought under control (see Figure).[r] ... See full document

... diversiication in the immigrant nurses’ functions is opposed to the care that is relegated to mere practice, with the consequent loss of empowerment and professional proile, while feeling that these practices go ... See full document

... Another important characteristic of typhoid fever is its distribution by age groups, with a large concentra- tion of cases occurring between school-age years and the 25-29[r] ... See full document

... with meningitis [4,6] . The surgery is a risk factor for meningitis and ...mortality. In our recent study, 66.6% of meningitis cases had neurosurgery procedure before ...from meningitis ... See full document

... therapy in bacterial meningitis is a controversial ...issues in results interpretation, namely, their design and the associated demographic and epidemiological ...paradigm, in what concerns to ... See full document

... included in the study had clinical signs of meningitis, it is unlikely that meningitis could account for the high prevalence of hyperosmia in the Lyme disease group, although a subclinical ... See full document

... Hubo ciertas semejanzas con la epidemia observada en California al mismo tiempo (véase el HoLETfN de agto. Desde entonces se denuncian éstos y los no paralfticos. [r] ... See full document

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... documented in most ...resulted in sicker patients and thrombocy- topenic fevers being referred to our hospital especially by general practitioners and nursing ...Differences in severity or ... See full document

... en Chile, idea influenciada por el político e intelectual chileno Manuel de Salas, que ya en el año 1811 promulgó la Ley de la Libertad de Vientres, debido a que hasta ese entonces la esclavitud era una condición ... See full document