ArticleEpidemiology and infection2006
Changing epidemiology of bacterial meningitis among adults in England and Wales 1991-2002.
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- Retrospective analysis of the etiology, clinical characteristics and outcomes of community-acquired bacterial meningitis in the University Infectious Diseases Centre in Lithuania.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- S1 guidelines "lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis" (abridged and translated version).Neurological research and practice · 2020Article
- Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial meningitis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019Article
- Bacterial meningitis in Malawian adults, adolescents, and children during the era of antiretroviral scale-up and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination, 2000-2012.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2014Article
- Aetiologies of central nervous system infection in Viet Nam: a prospective provincial hospital-based descriptive surveillance study.PloS one · 2012Article
- Incidence of bacterial meningitis (2001-2005) in Lazio, Italy: the results of a integrated surveillance system.BMC infectious diseases · 2009Article
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Abstract
We examined the epidemiology of community-acquired bacterial meningitis among adults in England and Wales between 1991 and 2002. Among 3169 cases, meningococcal infection was predominant among young adults and pneumococcal meningitis among older adults. Whilst infection due to most causes decreased, the incidence of tuberculous (TB) meningitis doubled over the 12 years. The mortality rate among meningococcal and pneumococcal infections fell from 0.45/10(5) to 0.31/10(5) (P=0.0001). This study demonstrates important changes in the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis among UK adults. Improvements in clinical management, childhood vaccination programmes and the re-emergence of tuberculosis are likely to be drivers of these changes.
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