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Meningitis, Abscess, and Encephalitis

Year: 2000

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Leptomeningitis (pachymeningitis, meningitis) is an 1 inflammatory condition involving the leptomeningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord. The process may be suppurative or nonsuppurative, depending upon the causative organism. Clinically, patients present with fever, headaches, nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness, photophobia, and confusion. The number of routes by which organisms reach the leptomeninges and cause meningitis are several and include hematogeneous dissemination, direct implantation due to surgery or trauma, local extension from an adjacent site, structural abnormalities such as neural tube defects, and retrograde ascending infection (usually via the peripheral nervous system as in rabies).

Source: Humana Press eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_35

Authors: Richard A. Prayson, Mark L. Cohen

Institutions: Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University

Language: English

Topic: Bacterial Infections and Vaccines

Subfield: Microbiology

Field: Immunology and Microbiology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W25652774

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