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Meningitis
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Meningitis is a medical emergency requiring a rapid diagnosis and an immediate transfer to an institution supplied with appropriate antibiotic and supportive measures. This book aims to provide general practitioners, paediatricians, and specialist physicians with an essential text written in an accessible language, and also to highlight the differences in pathogenesis and causative agents of meningitis in the developed and the developing world.
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Table of contents
- Meningitis
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Bacterial Meningitis and Deafness in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chapter 2 Emerging Pathogens in Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis
- Chapter 3 Perspectives of Neonatal-Perinatal Bacterial Meningitis
- Chapter 4 Neurologic Complications of Bacterial Meningitis
- Chapter 5 Early Neurologic Outcome and EEG of Infants with Bacterial Meningitis
- Chapter 6 Vaccines to Prevent Bacterial Meningitis in Children
- Chapter 7 Tuberculous Meningitis
- Chapter 8 Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance of Tuberculous Meningitis
- Chapter 9 Aseptic Meningitis Caused by Enteroviruses
- Chapter 10 An Overview on Cryptococcal Meningitis
- Chapter 11 Cryptococcal Meningitis
- Chapter 12 Human Parechoviruses, New Players in the Pathogenesis of Viral Meningitis
- Chapter 13 Strategies for the Prevention of Meningitis
- Chapter 14 Laboratory Diagnosis of Meningitis
- Chapter 15 Role of Dexamethasone in Meningitis
- Chapter 16 Treatment of Adult Meningitis and Complications