Meningitis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase-like protein functions in fungal copper import and meningitis. 
  • Activity of intrathecal 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide in a nude rat model of human neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Advantages of the combined spinal epidural (CSE) technique. 
  • Candida meningitis in two children with severe combined immunodeficiency. 
  • Cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis in acute bacterial meningitis. 
  • Cerebrospinal fluid macrophage response to experimental cryptococcal meningitis: relationship between in vivo and in vitro measurements of cytotoxicity. 
  • Cerebrospinal fluid to serum glucose ratios in diabetes mellitus and bacterial meningitis. 
  • Chemotactic activity of cerebrospinal fluid in experimental cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Chronic cryptococcal meningitis: a new experimental model in rabbits. 
  • Combined activity of amphotericin B and 5-fluorocytosine against Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro and in vivo in mice. 
  • Combined therapy with amphotericin B and 5-fluorocytosine for Candida meningitis. 
  • Comparison of amphotericin B and N-D-ornithyl amphotericin B methyl ester in experimental cryptococcal meningitis and Candida albicans endocarditis with pyelonephritis. 
  • Comparison of itraconazole and fluconazole in treatment of cryptococcal meningitis and candida pyelonephritis in rabbits. 
  • Cryptococcal meningitis with normal cerebrospinal fluid. 
  • Current options for the treatment of neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Cyclophosphamide therapy of medulloblastoma: from the laboratory to the clinic and back again (and again and again). 
  • Cytomegalovirus infection in the normal host. 
  • Diseases that mimic meningitis. 
  • Effects of central nervous system residua on cochlear implant results in children deafened by meningitis. 
  • Effects of cyclosporine in experimental cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Evaluation of complication rates of pediatric cranial procedures in which a polyethylene glycol sealant was used. 
  • Evaluation of complication rates of pediatric spinal procedures in which a polyethylene glycol sealant was used. 
  • Failure of ketoconazole in cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Fluconazole therapy for experimental cryptococcosis and candidiasis in the rabbit. 
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b infections in Victoria, Australia, 1985 to 1987. 
  • Hyperglycemia is not associated with mortality in bacterial meningitis. 
  • Identification of a novel cationic glycolipid in Streptococcus agalactiae that contributes to brain entry and meningitis. 
  • Imaging evaluation of the patient with worst headache of life--it's not all subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Immunoreactivity, pharmacokinetics and bone marrow dosimetry of intrathecal radioimmunoconjugates. 
  • Influence of agglutinating antibody in experimental cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Intracellular Action of a Secreted Peptide Required for Fungal Virulence. 
  • Intrathecal administration of 131I radiolabelled monoclonal antibody as a treatment for neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Intrathecal administration of single-chain immunotoxin, LMB-7 [B3(Fv)-PE38], produces cures of carcinomatous meningitis in a rat model. 
  • Intrathecal busulfan treatment of human neoplastic meningitis in athymic nude rats. 
  • Intrathecal melphalan therapy of human neoplastic meningitis in athymic nude rats. 
  • Isolation of Enterobacter aerogenes susceptible to beta-lactam antibiotics despite high level beta-lactamase production. 
  • Letter: Treatment of meningitis and encephalitis. 
  • Long term response in a patient with neoplastic meningitis secondary to melanoma treated with (131)I-radiolabeled antichondroitin proteoglycan sulfate Mel-14 F(ab')(2): a case study. 
  • Microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannomas: complication avoidance. 
  • Migratory leptomeningeal inflammation with relapsing polychondritis. 
  • Mollaret meningitis. A report of three cases. 
  • Neonatal candidemia and end-organ damage: a critical appraisal of the literature using meta-analytic techniques. 
  • Neonatal candidiasis among extremely low birth weight infants: risk factors, mortality rates, and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 to 22 months. 
  • Occipital Dermal Sinus Tract. 
  • Opsonic activity of cerebrospinal fluid in experimental cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Are at Higher Risk for Meningitis. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of cefoperazone, moxalactam, cefotaxime, trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole in experimental meningitis. 
  • Phase I studies of treatment of malignant gliomas and neoplastic meningitis with 131I-radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies anti-tenascin 81C6 and anti-chondroitin proteoglycan sulfate Me1-14 F (ab')2--a preliminary report. 
  • Phase I trial of intrathecal spartaject busulfan in children with neoplastic meningitis: a Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study (PBTC-004). 
  • Phenotypic Variability Correlates with Clinical Outcome in Cryptococcus Isolates Obtained from Botswanan HIV/AIDS Patients. 
  • Postnatally acquired CMV meningitis diagnosed via BioFire FilmArray: A case report. 
  • Predictive value of cerebrospinal fluid parameters in neonates with intraventricular drainage devices. 
  • Production of the hexitol D-mannitol by Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro and in rabbits with experimental meningitis. 
  • Radioimmunotherapy of neoplastic meningitis in rats using an alpha-particle-emitting immunoconjugate. 
  • Radioimmunotherapy with alpha-particle emitting radioimmunoconjugates. 
  • Recovery from disseminated candidiasis in a premature neonate. 
  • Rectothecal Fistula Secondary to a Tailgut Cyst With Malignant Transformation: An Abnormal Connection and Unusual Pathology. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus meningitis: review of 28 cases. 
  • Successful management of pain syndrome due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis by implantable spinal cord stimulator. 
  • Successful treatment of cryptococcal ventriculoatrial shunt infection with systemic therapy alone. 
  • Temozolomide in early stages of newly diagnosed malignant glioma and neoplastic meningitis. 
  • The gene encoding phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase (ADE2) is essential for growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid. 
  • The pharmacokinetics of BAY R3783 and its efficacy in the treatment of experimental cryptococcal meningitis. 
  • Transitional cell carcinomatous meningitis after M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) chemotherapy. 
  • Traumatic lumbar punctures in neonates: test performance of the cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count. 
  • Treatment of experimental cryptococcal meningitis and disseminated candidiasis with SCH39304. 
  • Treatment of experimental cryptococcal meningitis with amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, and ketoconazole. 
  • Treatment of neoplastic meningitis with intrathecal 9-nitro-camptothecin. 
  • Unusual presentations of inflammatory conditions in cerebrospinal fluid. 
  • Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans. Regulation of capsule synthesis by carbon dioxide. 
  • Voriconazole Treatment for an Infant With Intractable Candida glabrata Meningitis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering