bacterial meningitis

Diagnosis treatment and prophylaxis of community-acquired bacterial meningitis: the review of the guidelines of European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is one of the most serious infectious lesions of the central nervous system that can quickly lead to death in even previously healthy patients with inadequate treatment. The article provides an overview of the …

Review of the IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bacterial Meningitis

In this paper currently available data on the management, diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis were discussed in accordance with the principles evidencebased medicine. The guideline represents data published through May 2004 in this …