Meningite (Italian Wikipedia)

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Moris G, Garcia-Monco JC, The Challenge of Drug-Induced Aseptic Meningitis (PDF), in Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 159, n. 11, giugno 1999, pp. 1185–94, DOI:10.1001/archinte.159.11.1185, PMID 10371226.

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M. Hutchings, RO. Weller, Anatomical relationships of the pia mater to cerebral blood vessels in man., in J Neurosurg, vol. 65, n. 3, settembre 1986, pp. 316-25, DOI:10.3171/jns.1986.65.3.0316, PMID 3734882.
X. Nassif, S. Bourdoulous; E. Eugène; PO. Couraud, How do extracellular pathogens cross the blood-brain barrier?, in Trends Microbiol, vol. 10, n. 5, maggio 2002, pp. 227-32, PMID 11973156.
Provan, Krentz. (EN) Drew Provan, Andrew Krentz, Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-856663-8.
Assiri AM, Alasmari FA, Zimmerman VA, Baddour LM, Erwin PJ, Tleyjeh IM, Corticosteroid administration and outcome of adolescents and adults with acute bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis, in Mayo Clin. Proc., vol. 84, n. 5, maggio 2009, pp. 403–9, DOI:10.4065/84.5.403, PMC 2676122, PMID 19411436.
Gottfredsson M, Perfect JR, Fungal meningitis, in Seminars in Neurology, vol. 20, n. 3, 2000, pp. 307–22, DOI:10.1055/s-2000-9394, PMID 11051295.
Davies, Rudd, pp. 130-140. (EN) Pamela Anne Davies, Peter Thomas Rudd, Neonatal meningitis, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-901260-96-3.

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Ginsberg L, Difficult and recurrent meningitis (PDF), in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 75 Suppl 1, n. 90001, marzo 2004, pp. i16–21, DOI:10.1136/jnnp.2003.034272, PMC 1765649, PMID 14978146.
Thwaites G, Chau TT, Mai NT, Drobniewski F, McAdam K, Farrar J, Tuberculous meningitis (PDF), in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, vol. 68, n. 3, marzo 2000, pp. 289–99, DOI:10.1136/jnnp.68.3.289, PMC 1736815, PMID 10675209.

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Richardson MP, Reid A, Tarlow MJ, Rudd PT, Hearing loss during bacterial meningitis (PDF), in Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 76, n. 2, febbraio 1997, pp. 134–38, DOI:10.1136/adc.76.2.134, PMC 1717058, PMID 9068303.

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Sáez-Llorens X, McCracken GH, Bacterial meningitis in children, in Lancet, vol. 361, n. 9375, giugno 2003, pp. 2139–48, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13693-8, PMID 12826449.
Tunkel AR, Hartman BJ, Kaplan SL, Bruce A. Kaufman, Karen L. Roos, W. Michael Scheld e Richard J. Whitley, Practice guidelines for the management of bacterial meningitis (PDF), in Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 39, n. 9, novembre 2004, pp. 1267–84, DOI:10.1086/425368, PMID 15494903.
Ginsberg L, Difficult and recurrent meningitis (PDF), in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 75 Suppl 1, n. 90001, marzo 2004, pp. i16–21, DOI:10.1136/jnnp.2003.034272, PMC 1765649, PMID 14978146.
van de Beek D, de Gans J, Tunkel AR, Wijdicks EF, Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 354, n. 1, gennaio 2006, pp. 44–53, DOI:10.1056/NEJMra052116, PMID 16394301.
Attia J, Hatala R, Cook DJ, Wong JG, The rational clinical examination. Does this adult patient have acute meningitis?, in JAMA, vol. 282, n. 2, luglio 1999, pp. 175–81, DOI:10.1001/jama.282.2.175, PMID 10411200.
Greenwood B, 100 years of epidemic meningitis in West Africa – has anything changed? ^{[collegamento interrotto]}, in Tropical Medicine & International health: TM & IH, vol. 11, n. 6, giugno 2006, pp. 773–80, DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01639.x, PMID 16771997.
MN. Swartz, Bacterial meningitis--a view of the past 90 years., in N Engl J Med, vol. 351, n. 18, ottobre 2004, pp. 1826-8, DOI:10.1056/NEJMp048246, PMID 15509815.
Rosenberg DH, Arling PA, Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis, in JAMA, vol. 125, 1944, pp. 1011–1017. reproduced in Rosenberg DH, Arling PA, Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis, in JAMA, vol. 251, n. 14, aprile 1984, pp. 1870–6, DOI:10.1001/jama.251.14.1870, PMID 6366279.
Peltola H, Worldwide Haemophilus influenzae type b disease at the beginning of the 21st century: global analysis of the disease burden 25 years after the use of the polysaccharide vaccine and a decade after the advent of conjugates, in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, vol. 13, n. 2, aprile 2000, pp. 302–17, DOI:10.1128/CMR.13.2.302-317.2000, PMC 100154, PMID 10756001. URL consultato il 7 agosto 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 gennaio 2011).
de Gans J, van de Beek D, Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 347, n. 20, novembre 2002, pp. 1549–56, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa021334, PMID 12432041. URL consultato il 7 agosto 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 24 dicembre 2009).
van de Beek D, de Gans J, McIntyre P, Prasad K, Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis, in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online), n. 1, 2007, pp. CD004405, DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD004405.pub2, PMID 17253505.
Swartz MN, Bacterial meningitis—a view of the past 90 years, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, n. 18, ottobre 2004, pp. 1826–28, DOI:10.1056/NEJMp048246, PMID 15509815.
Logan SA, MacMahon E, Viral meningitis, in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 336, n. 7634, gennaio 2008, pp. 36–40, DOI:10.1136/bmj.39409.673657.AE, PMC 2174764, PMID 18174598.
Wilder-Smith A, Meningococcal vaccine in travelers, in Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, vol. 20, n. 5, ottobre 2007, pp. 454–60, DOI:10.1097/QCO.0b013e3282a64700, PMID 17762777.
F. Ntziora, A. Alevizopoulos; K. Konstantopoulos; S. Kanellopoulou; D. Bougas; K. Stravodimos, Aseptic meningitis with urinary retention: a case report., in Case Rep Med, vol. 2011, 2011, p. 741621, DOI:10.1155/2011/741621, PMID 22110516.
Hsu HE, Shutt KA, Moore MR, Bernard W. Beall, Nancy M. Bennett, Allen S. Craig, Monica M. Farley, James H. Jorgensen e Catherine A. Lexau, Effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal meningitis, in N Engl J Med, vol. 360, n. 3, 2009, pp. 244–256, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa0800836, PMID 19144940.
Khan FY, Abukhattab M, Anand D, Nosocomial Escherichia coli meningitis in adults: Report of four cases and literature review, in J Neurosci Rural Pract, vol. 4, n. 3, 2013, pp. 349-51, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa0800836, PMID 24250185.
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D. van de Beek, JM. Drake; AR. Tunkel, Nosocomial bacterial meningitis. (PDF), in N Engl J Med, vol. 362, n. 2, gennaio 2010, pp. 146-54, DOI:10.1056/NEJMra0804573, PMID 20071704. URL consultato il 2 marzo 2013 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 luglio 2014).
Thwaites G, Chau TT, Mai NT, Drobniewski F, McAdam K, Farrar J, Tuberculous meningitis (PDF), in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, vol. 68, n. 3, marzo 2000, pp. 289–99, DOI:10.1136/jnnp.68.3.289, PMC 1736815, PMID 10675209.
Tebruegge M, Curtis N, Epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis of recurrent bacterial meningitis, in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, vol. 21, n. 3, luglio 2008, pp. 519–37, DOI:10.1128/CMR.00009-08, PMC 2493086, PMID 18625686.
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Benjamin J Park, Park BJ, Wannemuehler KA, Marston BJ, Govender N, Pappas PG, Chiller TM., Estimation of the current global burden of cryptococcal meningitis among persons living with HIV/AIDS, in AIDS, vol. 23, n. 4, 1º febbraio 2009, pp. 525–530, DOI:10.1097/QAD.0b013e328322ffac, PMID 19182676.
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Gleissner B, Chamberlain MC, Neoplastic meningitis, in Lancet Neurol, vol. 5, n. 5, maggio 2006, pp. 443–52, DOI:10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70443-4, PMID 16632315.
Moris G, Garcia-Monco JC, The Challenge of Drug-Induced Aseptic Meningitis (PDF), in Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 159, n. 11, giugno 1999, pp. 1185–94, DOI:10.1001/archinte.159.11.1185, PMID 10371226.
M. Hutchings, RO. Weller, Anatomical relationships of the pia mater to cerebral blood vessels in man., in J Neurosurg, vol. 65, n. 3, settembre 1986, pp. 316-25, DOI:10.3171/jns.1986.65.3.0316, PMID 3734882.
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van de Beek D, de Gans J, Spanjaard L, Weisfelt M, Reitsma JB, Vermeulen M, Clinical features and prognostic factors in adults with bacterial meningitis (PDF), in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, n. 18, ottobre 2004, pp. 1849–59, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa040845, PMID 15509818.
Theilen U, Wilson L, Wilson G, Beattie JO, Qureshi S, Simpson D, Management of invasive meningococcal disease in children and young people: Summary of SIGN guidelines, in British Medical Journal, vol. 336, n. 7657, giugno 2008, pp. 1367–1370, DOI:10.1136/bmj.a129, PMC 2427067, PMID 18556318.
Thomas KE, Hasbun R, Jekel J, Quagliarello VJ, The diagnostic accuracy of Kernig's sign, Brudzinski neck sign, and nuchal rigidity in adults with suspected meningitis (PDF), in Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 35, n. 1, luglio 2002, pp. 46–52, DOI:10.1086/340979, PMID 12060874.
Chaudhuri A, Martinez–Martin P, Martin PM, R. Andrew Seaton, P. Portegies, M. Bojar, I. Steiner e Force Efns Task, EFNS guideline on the management of community-acquired bacterial meningitis: report of an EFNS Task Force on acute bacterial meningitis in older children and adults, in European Journal of Neurolology, vol. 15, n. 7, luglio 2008, pp. 649–59, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-1331.2008.02193.x, PMID 18582342.
Straus SE, Thorpe KE, Holroyd-Leduc J, How do I perform a lumbar puncture and analyze the results to diagnose bacterial meningitis?, in Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 296, n. 16, ottobre 2006, pp. 2012–22, DOI:10.1001/jama.296.16.2012, PMID 17062865.
Heyderman RS, Lambert HP, O'Sullivan I, Stuart JM, Taylor BL, Wall RA, Early management of suspected bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in adults (PDF), in The Journal of infection, vol. 46, n. 2, febbraio 2003, pp. 75–7, DOI:10.1053/jinf.2002.1110, PMID 12634067. URL consultato il 20 ottobre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 25 luglio 2011). – formal guideline at British Infection Society & UK Meningitis Research Trust, Early management of suspected meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in immunocompetent adults, su meningitis.org, British Infection Society Guidelines, dicembre 2004. URL consultato il 19 ottobre 2008 (archiviato dall'url originale il 19 ottobre 2013).
Maconochie I, Baumer H, Stewart ME, Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis, in Ian K MacOnochie (a cura di), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, n. 1, 2008, pp. CD004786, DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD004786.pub3, PMID 18254060.
Allen SH, How to perform a lumbar puncture with the patient in the seated position, in Br J Hosp Med (Lond), vol. 67, n. 3, marzo 2006, pp. M46–7, DOI:10.12968/hmed.2006.67.Sup3.20630, PMID 16562438. URL consultato il 5 aprile 2018.
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van de Beek D, Adjunctive dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data, in Lancet Neurol, vol. 9, n. 3, marzo 2010, pp. 254–63, DOI:10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5, PMC 2835871, PMID 20138011.
Brouwer MC, McIntyre P, de Gans J, Prasad K, van de Beek D, Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis, in Diederik Van De Beek (a cura di), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, n. 9, 2010, pp. CD004405, DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD004405.pub3, PMID 20824838.
Assiri AM, Alasmari FA, Zimmerman VA, Baddour LM, Erwin PJ, Tleyjeh IM, Corticosteroid administration and outcome of adolescents and adults with acute bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis, in Mayo Clin. Proc., vol. 84, n. 5, maggio 2009, pp. 403–9, DOI:10.4065/84.5.403, PMC 2676122, PMID 19411436.
de Gans J, van de Beek D, Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis (PDF), in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 347, n. 20, novembre 2002, pp. 1549–56, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa021334, PMID 12432041.
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Gottfredsson M, Perfect JR, Fungal meningitis, in Seminars in Neurology, vol. 20, n. 3, 2000, pp. 307–22, DOI:10.1055/s-2000-9394, PMID 11051295.
Richardson MP, Reid A, Tarlow MJ, Rudd PT, Hearing loss during bacterial meningitis (PDF), in Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 76, n. 2, febbraio 1997, pp. 134–38, DOI:10.1136/adc.76.2.134, PMC 1717058, PMID 9068303.
Peltola H, Worldwide Haemophilus influenzae type b disease at the beginning of the 21st century: global analysis of the disease burden 25 years after the use of the polysaccharide vaccine and a decade after the advent of conjugates (PDF), in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, vol. 13, n. 2, aprile 2000, pp. 302–17, DOI:10.1128/CMR.13.2.302-317.2000, PMC 100154, PMID 10756001. URL consultato il 20 ottobre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale l'8 luglio 2014).
Segal S, Pollard AJ, Vaccines against bacterial meningitis (PDF), in British Medical Bulletin, vol. 72, n. 1, 2004, pp. 65–81, DOI:10.1093/bmb/ldh041, PMID 15802609.
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FDA News Release, First vaccine approved by FDA to prevent serogroup B Meningococcal disease, su fda.gov, FDA, 29 ottobre 2014.

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de Gans J, van de Beek D, Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis (PDF), in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 347, n. 20, novembre 2002, pp. 1549–56, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa021334, PMID 12432041.

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Sáez-Llorens X, McCracken GH, Bacterial meningitis in children, in Lancet, vol. 361, n. 9375, giugno 2003, pp. 2139–48, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13693-8, PMID 12826449.
Tunkel AR, Hartman BJ, Kaplan SL, Bruce A. Kaufman, Karen L. Roos, W. Michael Scheld e Richard J. Whitley, Practice guidelines for the management of bacterial meningitis (PDF), in Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 39, n. 9, novembre 2004, pp. 1267–84, DOI:10.1086/425368, PMID 15494903.
Ginsberg L, Difficult and recurrent meningitis (PDF), in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 75 Suppl 1, n. 90001, marzo 2004, pp. i16–21, DOI:10.1136/jnnp.2003.034272, PMC 1765649, PMID 14978146.
van de Beek D, de Gans J, Tunkel AR, Wijdicks EF, Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 354, n. 1, gennaio 2006, pp. 44–53, DOI:10.1056/NEJMra052116, PMID 16394301.
Attia J, Hatala R, Cook DJ, Wong JG, The rational clinical examination. Does this adult patient have acute meningitis?, in JAMA, vol. 282, n. 2, luglio 1999, pp. 175–81, DOI:10.1001/jama.282.2.175, PMID 10411200.
Greenwood B, 100 years of epidemic meningitis in West Africa – has anything changed? ^{[collegamento interrotto]}, in Tropical Medicine & International health: TM & IH, vol. 11, n. 6, giugno 2006, pp. 773–80, DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01639.x, PMID 16771997.
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MN. Swartz, Bacterial meningitis--a view of the past 90 years., in N Engl J Med, vol. 351, n. 18, ottobre 2004, pp. 1826-8, DOI:10.1056/NEJMp048246, PMID 15509815.
Rosenberg DH, Arling PA, Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis, in JAMA, vol. 125, 1944, pp. 1011–1017. reproduced in Rosenberg DH, Arling PA, Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis, in JAMA, vol. 251, n. 14, aprile 1984, pp. 1870–6, DOI:10.1001/jama.251.14.1870, PMID 6366279.
Peltola H, Worldwide Haemophilus influenzae type b disease at the beginning of the 21st century: global analysis of the disease burden 25 years after the use of the polysaccharide vaccine and a decade after the advent of conjugates, in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, vol. 13, n. 2, aprile 2000, pp. 302–17, DOI:10.1128/CMR.13.2.302-317.2000, PMC 100154, PMID 10756001. URL consultato il 7 agosto 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 gennaio 2011).
de Gans J, van de Beek D, Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 347, n. 20, novembre 2002, pp. 1549–56, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa021334, PMID 12432041. URL consultato il 7 agosto 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 24 dicembre 2009).
van de Beek D, de Gans J, McIntyre P, Prasad K, Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis, in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online), n. 1, 2007, pp. CD004405, DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD004405.pub2, PMID 17253505.
Swartz MN, Bacterial meningitis—a view of the past 90 years, in The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, n. 18, ottobre 2004, pp. 1826–28, DOI:10.1056/NEJMp048246, PMID 15509815.
Logan SA, MacMahon E, Viral meningitis, in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 336, n. 7634, gennaio 2008, pp. 36–40, DOI:10.1136/bmj.39409.673657.AE, PMC 2174764, PMID 18174598.
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