Parents and carers have the right to be involved in planning and making decisions about their baby's health and care, and to be given information and support to enable them to do this, as set out in ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

Meningitis, the swelling of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, is no stranger to college campuses, where lots of students are living close together. Within the last year, ...

Two new decision rules can help identify neonatal or paediatric meningitis having a bacterial aetiology and thereby better tailor care. Investigators prospectively studied 3002 patients younger than ...

Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants are particularly susceptible to this type of infection; they develop meningitis 30 times more often ...

Meningitis causes symptoms of high fever, stiff neck, and headache. Meningitis risk is higher for younger people and those living in crowded spaces. Unvaccinated people are at higher risk of getting ...

We identified 1726 cases of late-onset neonatal GBS disease between January 1990 and December 2005. Seventy-nine percent of isolates were obtained from blood, 19% from cerebrospinal fluid, 2% from ...

Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord, which are called the meninges. The illness is usually caused by a bacterial or viral infection. In rare ...