Bacterial Meningitis — A Review of Selected Aspects

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Special Features Recurrent bacterial meningitis. Repeated episodes of bacterial meningitis represent a clinical entity limited almost exclusively to the antibiotic era. Such a clinical problem introduces the following important considerations: gross anatomic defects, congenital or acquired, of the central nervous system and its coverings; parameningeal foci of infection; and impaired antibacterial or immune responses.During the years encompassed by this review 6 cases of recurrent bacterial meningitis were encountered. All could be related to an anatomic defect, most often of traumatic origin. Although a parameningeal focus of infection (sinus or mastoid) was implicated many times, and brain abscess once, as . . .

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