Background: Lumbar puncture (LP) to exclude meningitis is part of an infection screen in many neonatal units. For best outcome, meningitis requires early initiation of treatment. Results of ...

A 7-day-old, 34-week premature male in the neonatal ICU became irritable with fever and underwent a full sepsis workup. His exam was unremarkable, but the lab results revealed a complete blood count ...

"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 ...

Background: Lumbar puncture (LP) for the exclusion of meningitis is included as part of routine clinical investigation of suspected sepsis in many neonatal units. A retrospective review of medical ...

Neonatal meningitis is inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord in newborns that happens during an infant’s first 28 days of life. It can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or ...

To determine the frequency of concomitant acute bacterial meningitis in neonates with febrile urinary tract infection (UTI), a recent study [1] reviewed outcomes for children evaluated from 2005 ...

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 ...

Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants are particularly susceptible to this type of infection; they develop meningitis 30 times more often ...

Researchers have identified the types of E.coli responsible for neonatal meningitis -- around 50 per cent of infections are caused by two types of E. coli. The study was the largest to date, examining ...