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… UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed three cases of meningococcal infection (meningitis) in young people in Reading.…

…Background Cerebral vasospasm is a serious complication of intracranial pathologies. Treatmen…

…An estimated quarter of a million people died from meningitis worldwide in 2023, with over a third of deaths in children unde…

…rt the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to a suspected case of meningitis.…

…Five further cases of meningitis have been identified in the outbreak in Kent that has left two …

…A meningitis outbreak in Kent that has left two young people dead and 11 oth…

…ve for rapid Leptospira IgM, blood culture ultimately confirmed Neisseria meningitidis. Early administration of appropriate antibiotics and supportive…

…hopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), necrotising enterocolitis, sepsis, meningitis and death.1 There is evidence from clinical studies and experim…

…Introduction Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy is an autoimmune inflammatory central nervous system disease th…

…phillis and may present with associated vestibular dysfunction. Neurosyphillis is an important differential diagnosis to consider in patients …

…S information leaflets for parents in 13 paediatric conditions (gastroenteritis; jaundice; asthma; eczema; scarlet fever; UTI; meningitis; clef…

…t pain at the base of the skull. Initial differentials included subarachnoid haemorrhage and meningitis. Due to the referral of a patient presenting wit…