Bacterial Meningitis

Long-Term Cognitive Effects May Follow Infection

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 19th, 2000

Patients in a long-term follow-up study were found to suffer from many psychometric deficits after being acutely infected with bacterial meningitis, scientists report.

S. Merkelbach, a researcher at the University of Homburg, Germany, was the leader of the study, which included 22 diagnosed and treated bacterial meningitis patients as well as 17 healthy controls ("Cognitive outcome after bacterial meningitis," Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2000;102(2):118-123).

Researchers studied neurologic, psychiatric, and psychometric impairments in the bacterial meningitis patients, whose mean length of time since acute infection was 30 months ±...

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