Several immune cells help fungi infect the brain and cause meningitis when they should be doing the exact opposite. From the University of Sydney, researchers investigate the immune system’s ...

Bacterial meningitis is a severe infection characterised by the inflammation of the membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord. It results in high rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide, ...

Brain fever, a term for serious infections causing brain inflammation like meningitis and encephalitis, can lead to severe ...

Thousands of people in the U.S. each year are affected by bacterial meningitis, which can be deadly. Newborns to grown adults can be impacted by the infection. Vaccines help prevent bacterial ...

Twenty-four of 25 patients with bacterial meningitis and nine of 11 with CNS viral infection had increased LDH activity in the CSF. The mean levels were 112.8 units per milliliter in bacterial, 193 ...

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was a 12-year-old named Ansley "Payce" Chappell, a seventh grader who attended ...

Jesus G. Vallejo, Sheldon L. Kaplan, Edward O. Mason, Jr. Cefotaxime and other cephalosporins were retrospectively evaluated for the treatment of meningitis and non-central nervous system (CNS) ...

News of the sudden illness and death of Deer Creek athlete Nathan Rogalski rocked the community and raised questions about what bacterial meningitis is and whom it affects. Rogalski, who had committed ...

If you are heading off to college or to join the military, you doctor may have warn you about the risk of meningitis. That’s because people who live in close proximity in a large group setting, such ...

At least two Americans have died and 17 have suspected or probable cases of a potentially deadly infection linked to an outbreak at cosmetic surgery clinics in Mexico. The infected patients contracted ...

In a world first, researchers have revealed how a deadly fungus and primary cause of life-threatening meningitis exploits the immune system like a 'Trojan Horse' to promote infection. Published today ...