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11941569

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Chart review of 41 adult patients with group A streptococcal (GAS) meningitis in The Netherlands revealed that this is a community-acquired disease and occurs mainly in patients with predisposing factors: of the 41 patients in this case series, 24 (60%) of 40 evaluable patients had otitis or sinusitis. Fever and neck stiffness were the most common clinical manifestations of disease, but, in addition, high rates of seizures (12 [32%] of 38 patients), focal neurological findings (13 [36%] of 36 patients), and hyponatremia (20 [58%] of 35 patients) were found. In contrast with data from the literature that describes 27 adult cases, we found that GAS meningitis is a fulminant disease with a mortality rate of 27% (10 of 37 patients), and that neurological sequelae occur in 36% (12 of 38) of surviving patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1537-6591
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
e32-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Group a streptococcal meningitis in adults: report of 41 cases and a review of the literature.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, and The Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. D.vandeBeek@amc.uva.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Case Reports