| [vaccination against haemophilus influenzae b and rubella]. | haemophilus influenzae b was the most frequent pathogen of bacterial meningitis in childhood during the mid-eighties to the end of the eighties of the present century, taking the place of meningococci since approximately 1984 at about twice the rate of that pathogen, as shown by the records kept during 1980-1990 in bavarian departments of paediatrics. in fact, in 1990 the incidence of hib meningitides was about 2.5 times that of meningococcus meningitides (85 vs. 34, respectively). for practical ... | 1992 | 1450535 |
| [bacterial cns infections in adults in southern lower saxony. a retrospective study of the göttingen neurologic university clinic]. | all 155 patients with suspected bacterial central nervous system (cns) infections treated from 1986 to 1991 at the department of neurology, university of göttingen, were evaluated in a retrospective study. according to the clinical symptoms presented at admission, 7 cases were classified as encephalitis, 44 as meningitis, 15 as radiculitis, 19 as ventriculitis, 61 as meningoencephalitis and 9 as meningoradiculitis. in 78% of these cases, the causative bacteria were either isolated from cerebrosp ... | 1994 | 7969649 |