"Meningitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Inflammation of the coverings of the brain and/or spinal cord, which consist of the PIA MATER; ARACHNOID; and DURA MATER. Infections (viral, bacterial, and fungal) are the most common causes of this condition, but subarachnoid hemorrhage (HEMORRHAGES, SUBARACHNOID), chemical irritation (chemical MENINGITIS), granulomatous conditions, neoplastic conditions (CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS), and other inflammatory conditions may produce this syndrome. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1994, Ch24, p6)
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D008581
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.614
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Meningitis" by people in Profiles.
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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 01; 94(1):176-81.
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An assessment of the safety of adolescent and adult tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine, using active surveillance for adverse events in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. Vaccine. 2009 Jul 09; 27(32):4257-62.
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Observed costs and health care use of children in a randomized controlled trial of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002 May; 21(5):361-5.