Research Article: The clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of adult patients with community-acquired spontaneous bacterial meningitis with a fulminant clinical course in Taiwan
Abstract:
To examine the clinical characteristics of adult patients with community-acquired spontaneous bacterial meningitis (CASBM) with a fulminant clinical course.
Introduction:
In recent decades, the epidemiologic trend of adult bacterial meningitis (ABM), a serious infectious disease of the central nervous system (CNS), has changed gradually [1], and the main changes included an increasing incidence of post-neurosurgical meningitis and a decreasing incidence of Streptococcus pnemoniae meningitis. The clinical course of bacterial meningitis is usually acute, but if the evolution of consciousness level is taken into consideration, its clinical course may range from hyper-acute to chronic…
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