A Study on the Inflammatory Response of the Brain in Neurosyphilis by Qiyu Zhang, Jie Ma, Jia Zhou, Hanlin Zhang, Mansheng Li, Huizi Gong, Yujie Wang, Heyi Zheng, Jun Li, Ling Leng

“…Abstract Neurosyphilis (NS) is a clinical condition caused by infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by Treponema pallidum (Tp) that can lead to asymptomatic meningitis and more serious neurological diseases, such as dementia and blindness. …”
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Application of Nucleic Acid Reference Material for Rapid Detection of Cronobacter sakazakii (Cronobacter spp.) in Flammulina velutipes by Huandie Yang, Danyang Guo, Leilei Chen, Alexander Suvorov, Qingxin Zhou, Junhua Wang, Xiaofeng Gao, Jinyu Yang, Xiangyan Chen

“…Cronobacter sakazakii (C. sakazakii) widely exists in the environment and is a common foodborne pathogenic microorganism. It can cause meningitis, bacteremia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in infants and elderly people with low immunity. …”
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Effect of Hemoadsorption for Cytokine Removal in Pneumococcal and Meningococcal Sepsis by Francesca Leonardis, Viviana De Angelis, Francesca Frisardi, Chiara Pietrafitta, Ivano Riva, Tino Martino Valetti, Valentina Broletti, Gianmariano Marchesi, Lorenza Menato, Roberto Nani, Franco Marson, Mirca Fabbris, Luca Cabrini, Sergio Colombo, Alberto Zangrillo, Carlo Coniglio, Giovanni Gordini, Lucia Stalteri, Giovanni Giuliani, Vittorio Dalmastri, Gaetano La Manna

“…Bacterial meningitis and septicemia are invasive bacterial diseases, representing a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. …”
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Clinical Characteristics, Laboratory Parameters, and Molecular Epidemiology of Neuroinvasive Flavivirus Infections in a Hotspot Region of Eastern Croatia by Dario Sabadi, Kristian Bodulić, Vladimir Savić, Nika Vlahović Vlašić, Maja Bogdanić, Ljiljana Perić, Irena Tabain, Dubravka Lišnjić, Mario Duvnjak, Snježana Židovec-Lepej, Barbara Grubišić, Ilija Rubil, Ljubo Barbić, Luka Švitek, Vladimir Stevanović, Petra Smajić, Bernarda Berišić, Mihaela Zlosa, Ivana Rončević, Tatjana Vilibić-Čavlek

“…Comorbidities were more frequently detected in WNV patients (hypertension 56.3 vs. 18.2%; diabetes 31.3 vs. 0%). Meningitis was the most common clinical presentation in both TBE and WNV neuroinvasive disease (WNND; 63.6 and 59.4%, respectively). …”
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Protocol for a phase IV double-blind randomised controlled trial to investigate the effect of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccha... by Tao Chen, Duolao Wang, Konstantinos Liatsikos, Stephen B Gordon, Hassan Burhan, Ben Morton, Tinashe K Nyazika, Bradford D Gessner, Helen Hill, Andrea Collins, Josh Hamilton, Kelly Davies, Fred Fyles, Phoebe Hazenberg, Elizabeth Begier, Angela Hyder-Wright, Sherin Pojar, Christopher Myerscough, Jesus Reine, Ryan E Robinson, Britta Urban, Elena Mitsi, Carla Solorzano, Angela Quinn, Kaijie Pan, Annaliesa S Anderson, Christian Theilacker, Daniela M Ferreira, Kelly Convey, James Court, Madlen Farrar, Lisa Hitchins, Ashleigh Howard, Lauren Kerruish, Samuel Latham, Annabel Murphy, Elissavet Nikolaou, Angelina Peterson

“…Introduction Despite widely available vaccinations, Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing community-acquired pneumonia, meningitis, otitis media, sinusitis and bacteraemia. …”
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Selected Abstracts of the 20th International Workshop on Neonatology and Pediatrics; Cagliari (Italy); October 23-26, 2024 by --- Various Authors

“…CASE REPORT: INFANT WITH PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS AND SEPSIS • A. Falchi, A. Ghigino, V. Sanneris, C. …”
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Case report: A case report and literature review on the efficacy of high-dose aumolertinib combined intrathecal pemetrexed by Ommaya reservoir for EGFR-mutated NSCLC with leptomeni... by Maoxi Zhong, Maoxi Zhong, Maoxi Zhong, Li Zhou, Li Zhou, Li Zhou, Jing Guo, Jing Guo, Jing Guo, Chuan Chen, Chuan Chen, Chuan Chen, Wei Wang, Wei Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaoping Huang, Xiaoping Huang, Xiaoping Huang, Yi Liu, Yi Liu, Yi Liu

“…This case highlights the positive impact of high-dose aumolertinib combined with intrathecal pemetrexed on NSCLC patients presenting with severe meningeal symptoms as the initial manifestation, offering a viable therapeutic approach for managing severe meningeal symptoms associated with LM, such as headache, nausea, neck stiffness, and vomiting.…”
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Intraosseous Meningioma of the Frontal Bone: Management and Challenges in Autologous Bone Reconstruction by Rafaela Jucá Lindner, Frederico de Lima Gibbon, Antônio Delacy Martini Vial

“…These slow-growing tumors arise from the arachnoid cells present in the meninges and infiltrate the adjacent bone, often presenting as palpable masses. …”
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Neuroinvasive Cryptococcosis in an Immunocompetent Patient with a Negative Spinal Fluid Cryptococcus Antigen by Rocio C. Garcia-Santibanez, Veenu Gill, Stanley Yancovitz, DeWitt Pyburn

“…58-year-old man presented with headache, nausea, vomiting, and gait disturbance. Brain MRI showed meningeal enhancement and herniation. Serum Cryptococcus antigen was positive but spinal fluid antigen and cultures were negative. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Bacterial Meningoencephalitis. by Belkys Rodríguez Llerena, Luciano Núñez Almoguea

“…It has been defined as an acute inflammatory process caused by bacteria, often purulent, which involves the meninges, subarachnoid space around the brain, spinal cord and usually includes the ventricles. …”
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Interface Molecules of Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Their Role in Parasite Survival and Modulation of Host Defenses by Alessandra L. Morassutti, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira

“…Disease presents following the ingestion of third-stage larvae residing in the intermediate mollusk host and disease manifests as an acute inflammation of the meninges characterized by eosinophil infiltrates which release a battery of proinflammatory and cytotoxic agents in response to the pathogen. …”
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An Unusual Cardiac Manifestation in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Fausta Catapano, Stefano Pancaldi, Carlo Pace Napoleone, Lucia Barbara De Sanctis, Gaetano Gargiulo, Giuseppe Emiliani, Antonio Santoro

“…Connective tissue defects, including cerebral aneurysm, meningeal diverticula, abdominal wall hernias, intestinal diverticula, and cardiac valvular abnormalities, are widely known manifestations. …”
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Ti år med Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk by Ilmi Willbergh, Pål Aarsand

“…I tidsskriftets første leder fremhevet redaktørene at utdanning er et politisk slagfelt der ulike synspunkter, agendaer, ideologier, meninger og erfaringer møtes. Blant annet skriver de at «tidsskriftet skal være et sted for nytenk-ende og skarpe analyser som åpner for nye perspektiver på pedagogiske problemstillinger og institusjoner» (2015, s. 2). …”
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Transcriptome analysis of novel B16 melanoma metastatic variants generated by serial intracarotid artery injection by Jenny C. Kienzler, Erick M. Contreras, Janet Treger, Linda M. Liau, Geoffrey C. Owens, Robert M. Prins

“…Principal component analysis of differentially expressed genes showed that 4th generation melanoma cells isolated from the brain, lung and meninges from one lineage were distinct from those of the other three lineages. …”
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Cerebral Wegener’s Granuloma: Surgery Mandatory for Diagnosis and Treatment by Federico Nicolosi, Giovanni Nodari, Giannantonio Spena, Elena Roca, Karol Migliorati, Giacomo Esposito, Roberto Stefini, Marco Fontanella, Pier Paolo Panciani

“…The involvement of the central nervous system in case of Wegener granulomatosis (WG) is infrequent and usually leads to cranial nerve abnormalities, cerebrovascular events, and seizures. Meningeal involvement is quite rare and usually is due to the spreading from adjacent disease in the skull base. …”
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An Asymptomatic Large Anterior Sacral Meningocele in a Patient with a History of Gestation: A Case Report with Radiological Findings by Mehmet Beyazal

“…Anterior sacral meningocele is characterized by herniation of the meningeal sac due to a developmental bone defect in the front of a sacrum bone. …”
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Meningiomatosis Restricted to the Left Cerebral Hemisphere Presenting with Frontal Lobe Seizure: A Short Communication by Biniyam A. Ayele, Hilina Dagnachew, Meskerem Nimani, Jarsso Tadesse Hirbu

“…Although seizures are cortical phenomena that typically originate from lesions affecting cortical neurons, meningiomas, which arise from the meningeal lining, can still induce seizures due to their proximity to the cerebral cortex. …”
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Pediatric optic neuritis: literature review by S. Bubnytė, J. Andrulionytė

“…In children, optic neuritis is rarely associated with multiple sclerosis, more often it can be associated with specific infections, such as diseases of the adjacent sinuses or orbital structures and infectious or infiltrative diseases of the brain or meninges, or it may develop as a separate pathological condition. …”
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Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…Most cases involve exclusively pulmonary manifestations while less than one percent present with disseminated infection, usually with meningeal or skin involvement. In this case, a patient with a history of odynophagia, sore throat, productive cough, weight loss, and abnormalities on chest radiograph presented with sepsis and diabetic ketoacidosis. …”
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Acute Hydrocephalus due to Secondary Leptomeningeal Dissemination of an Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma by Andreas M. Stark, Heinz-Herrmann Hugo, H. Maximilian Mehdorn, Friederike Knerlich-Lukoschus

“…MRI now ruled out local tumor progression but revealed meningeal contrast enhancement along the medulla, the myelon, and the cauda equina. …”
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