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Bacterial Meningitis
Research from J.C. Moisi and colleagues has provided new data on bacterial meningitis
March 24th, 2009
"Accurate etiological diagnosis of meningitis in developing countries is needed, to improve clinical care and to optimize disease-prevention strategies. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture and latex agglutination testing are currently the standard diagnostic methods but lack sensitivity," researchers in the United States report. "We prospectively assessed the utility of an immunochromatographic test (ICT) of pneumococcal antigen (NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae Antigen Test; Binax), compared with culture, in 5 countries that are conducting bacterial meningitis surveillance in Africa and Asia. Most CSF samples were collected from patients aged 1-59 months. A total of 1173 CSF...
Source: Disease Prevention Week (2009-03-24)
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