Meningitis

New meningitis study findings recently were reported by B. Roca and co-researchers

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 12th, 2009

According to recent research from Spain, "The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical features of tuberculosis meningitis in the province of Castellon, Spain. Retrospective analysis was done of all cases attended during the last 15 years."

"The following groups of variables were assessed: sociodemographic data, medical antecedents, clinical presentation, imaging study results, analyses. cerebrospinal fluid microbiology, treatment, and Outcome. Twenty-nine cases were included. Median of age of patients was 34 years. and 17 (59%) were males. HIV infection was present in 15 cases (52%), fever, the most common symptom. Occurred in 27 (93%), nuchal...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-01-12)

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