Early-onset neonatal infection is linked to higher risks for intellectual disability and special educational needs during childhood, with meningitis carrying a higher risk than sepsis.

A milestone study led by University of Queensland researchers has identified the main types of E. coli bacteria that cause neonatal meningitis, and revealed why some infections recur despite being ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

Two new decision rules can help identify neonatal or paediatric meningitis having a bacterial aetiology and thereby better tailor care. Investigators prospectively studied 3002 patients younger than ...

Febrile infants aged 8–60 days with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection showed an exceedingly low rate of invasive bacterial infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis. This finding suggests that ...

Among the sample of 981,869 children, researchers found that the incidence rate of epilepsy was 1.6 and 0.9 per 1000 person-years for children with diagnosed sepsis and those without an infection, ...