September 4, 2024 by Mayo Clinic News Network As students head off to college, close quarters in new spaces could put them at risk for contagious illnesses, including bacterial meningitis. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, explains the common ways meningitis spreads and the best way to prevent an infection. Meningitis is...
by Alan Mozes Meningococcal disease—which includes meningitis—appears to be on the rise among Americans infected with HIV, new research reveals. Researchers stress that the risk to any one person remains exceedingly rare, regardless of their HIV status. Each year between 2017 and 2021 HIV-positive patients accounted for five to 15 cases of the bacterial disease,...
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO IMAGE: IT CAN BE USED TO STUDY THE RESISTANCE PROFILE OF PNEUMOCOCCUS EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF THE ISOLATED STRAINS (PNEUMOCOCCI OBSERVED IN THE MICROSCOPE) CREDIT: IVANA CAMPOS A study published in the journal PLOS ONE could one day help health workers determine whether bacteria of the species Streptococcus pneumoniae,...
Fever, headache, confusion, seizures, amputations or death. Meningitis is a very serious brain infection that can affect the body in many ways and needs to be treated within 24 hours of contracting the disease. The World Health Organization estimates that there are close to three million cases per year. Between the four main causes of...
by University of Southampton Gram stain of meningococci from a culture showing Gram-negative (pink) bacteria, often in pairs. Credit: public domain Led by Professor Robert Read and Dr. Jay Laver from the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Southampton, new immunology research is the first of its kind. Together they inserted a gene into a harmless type...
Investigators from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that students who were aged 18 to 24 were 3.5 times more likely to contract meningitis B than their peers who were not in school. The research team, led by Dr. Sarah Mbaeyi from the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said...
The test has been developed by Dr James McKenna at Queens University, Belfast Traditional meningitis tests can take up to 48 hours to come back from a lab Medics currently take a spinal or blood sample from a patient and send it to a lab This new test which involves a mouth swab can return...
