Management of meningitis

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 499-505

  Tunbridge, Anne ^b   Read, Robert C ^a,b  

^a Department of Infectious Diseases ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacterial; Meningitis; Vaccines; Viral

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; ISONIAZID; PENICILLIN G; PLECONARIL; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MUMPS VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 11244333284     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-6-499     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Durand ML, Calderwood SB, Weber DJ, Miller SI et al. Acute bacterial meningitis in adults. A review of 493 episodes. N Engl J Med 1993;328:21-8.
2. Scheld WM, Koedel U, Nathan B, Pfister HW. Pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis: mechanism(s) of neuronal injury. Review. J Infect Dis 2002;186(Suppl 2): S225-33.
3. Health Protection Agency Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. Statutory Notifications of Infectious Diseases in England and Wales (NOIDS). Available at www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/noids/menu.htm
4. Data from World Health Organisation, Hib-Paediatric Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance Network Overview. Available at www.afro.who.int/hib/
5. Hasbun R, Abrahams J, Jekel J, Quagliarello VJ. Computed tomography of the head before lumbar puncture in adults with suspected meningitis. N Engl J Med 2001;345: 1727-33.
6. Corless CE, Guiver M, Borrow R, Edwards-Jones V et al. Simultaneous detection of Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumonias in suspected cases of meningitis and septicemia using real-time PCR. J Clin Microbiol 2001;39:1553-8.
7. Wilks D, Lever AM. Reasons for delay in administration of antibiotics to patients with meningitis and meningococcaemia. J Infect 1996;32:49-51.
8. British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. British National Formulary 47, March 2004. Available at: www.bnf.org
9. Aronin SI, Peduzzi P, Quagliarello VJ. Community-acquired bacterial meningitis: risk stratification for adverse clinical outcome and effect of antibiotic timing. Ann Intern Med 1998;129:862-9.
10. Talan DA, Guterman JJ, Overturf GD, Singer C et al. Analysis of emergency department management of suspected bacterial meningitis. Ann Emerg Med 1989;18: 856-62.
11. Heyderman RS, Lambert HP, O'Sullivan I, Stuart JM et al. Early management of suspected bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in adults. J Infect 2003; 46:75-7.
12. Begg N, Cartwright KA, Cohen J, Kaczmarski EB et al. Consensus statement on diagnosis, investigation, treatment and prevention of acute bacterial meningitis in immunocompetent adults. British Infection Society Working Party. Review. J Infect 1999;39:1-15.
13. Quagliarello VJ, Scheld WM. Treatment of bacterial meningitis. Review. N Engl J Med 1997;336:708-16.
14. Schaad UB, Lips U, Gnehm HE, Blumberg A et al. Dexamethasone therapy for bacterial meningitis in children. Swiss Meningitis Study Group. Lancet 1993;342:457-61.
15. Molyneux EM, Walsh AL, Forsyth H, Tembo M et al. Dexamethasone treatment in childhood bacterial meningitis in Malawi: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2002;360:211-8.
16. de Gans J, van de Beek D; European Dexamethasone in Adulthood Bacterial Meningitis Study Investigators. Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis. N Engl J Med 2002;347: 1549-56.
17. Purcell B, Samuelsson S, Hahne SJ, Ehrhard I et al. Effectiveness of antibiotics in preventing meningococcal disease after a case: systematic review. BMJ 2004;328:1339.
18. Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society. Chemotherapy and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: recommendations 1998. Thorax 1998;53:536-48.
19. Weidmann M, Meyer-Konig U, Hufert FT. Rapid detection of herpes simplex virus and varicella-zoster virus infections by real-time PCR. J Clin Microbiol 2003;41:1565-8.