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Meningitis in infancy is associated with teen behavioural problems
Infants who contract meningitis grow into teenagers with worse behavioural problems than their peers, suggests a study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The research team carried out a survey of the parents and teachers of 739 English and Welsh 13 year olds who had contracted bacterial... view more (2003-04-23)

A fast diagnosis for bacterial meningitis
University of Sydney researchers at Westmead Millennium Institute develop an accurate and rapid method of diagnosing bacterial meningitis.   view more (2005-11-17)

Clinical guidelines help identify which children at risk of bacterial meningitis
A set of guidelines have been developed that can help predict the risk of bacterial meningitis for children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis (presence of greater number of white blood cells than normal).   view more (2007-01-03)

Hope For New Meningitis Vaccine
Research performed by scientists at the School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey and the Health Protection Agency (Porton Down, Salisbury) provides hope for developing a new meningitis vaccine that will protect children against all groups of meningococcus. Published in the... view more (2004-01-05)

Risk factors identified for hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis
Researchers have identified several risk factors that are associated with the development of hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis.   view more (2006-09-19)

How Bacteria get into Brains to Cause Meningitis
An international collaboration between medical researchers may have identified how meningitis causing bacteria cross from the blood into the brain, paving the way for new strategies to prevent this fatal disease, the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting in Edinburgh heard today,... view more (2003-04-02)

A THIRD OF CHILDHOOD BACTERIAL MENINGITIS CASES COULD BE MISSED IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (p 1753)
Limited resources, which prevents the measurement of microbiological markers, could mean that around a third of cases of acute childhood bacterial meningitis are not diagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa, conclude authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The diagnosis of acute bacterial... view more (2001-05-31)

Dipstick test for meningitis culprits
Over a million people each year, most of them in the "meningitis belt" in Africa, contract bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection of tissues that line the brain and spinal cord.   view more (2006-09-05)

Gene mutations - possible link to meningitis
Gene mutations may account for a third of all meningococcal meningitis in the UK scientists heard today (Thursday 19 September) at the Society for General Microbiology autumn meeting at Loughborough University. "We have used family studies to calculate that differences in a person`s genetics... view more (2002-08-28)

Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
Children who get meningitis in their first year of life have a 10-fold increased risk of severe or moderate disability at 5 years of age compared with other children, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. These findings provide a complete picture of the range of problems experienced by children... view more (2001-09-05)

Early hearing tests improve children's recovery from meningitis
Hearing loss and its impact in social interactions can be potentially minimized in children with bacterial meningitis through early identification, according to a study conducted at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston.   view more (2006-09-19)

Change policy: Giving steroids to children with meningitis can reduce hearing loss and lower the incidence of long-term brain damage and can save lives in both children and adults with meningitis
Research News in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Antibiotics are essential and life-saving in the treatment of bacterial meningitis, but for years doctors have debated whether to give corticosteroids at the same time. The inflammation caused by meningitis can actually be made worse by... view more (2003-09-23)

Change policy: Giving steroids to children with meningitis can reduce hearing loss and lower the incidence of long-term brain damage and can save lives in both children and adults with meningitis
Research News in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Antibiotics are essential and life-saving in the treatment of bacterial meningitis, but for years doctors have debated whether to give corticosteroids at the same time. The inflammation caused by meningitis can actually be made worse by... view more (2003-07-28)

Meningitis C vaccine is cost effective
The introduction of meningococcal C vaccine in the UK in 1999 has rapidly and substantially reduced the incidence of meningitis in young people and is cost effective, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. Researchers at the Public Health Laboratory Service in London assessed the cost... view more (2002-04-03)

Nasal vaccine may protect against meningitis
BENIGN bugs that live in the noses of many infants have inspired a much-needed vaccine against a deadly form of meningitis.         Based on the bacterium Neisseria lactamica, the prototype vaccine is showing promise against group B meningococcal meningitis... view more (2002-04-10)

New Model For Early Meningitis Detection Sub-Saharan Africa (pp 255, 287)
A meningitis incidence threshold of 10 cases per 100 000 inhabitants in just 1 week - lower than previously recommended by the WHO - can reliably be used to confirm an epidemic in time to implement vaccination programmes, conclude authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Epidemics of... view more (2001-07-25)

Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated
Meningitis epidemics caused by the pathogen Nesseiria meningitis (or meningococcus) provoke high mortality in children and young people under 20 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa.   view more (2007-06-06)

Scientists identify specific enzymes that make meningitis hard to fight
Two enzymes in meningitis bacteria which prevent the body from successfully fighting off the disease, and make the infection extremely virulent, have been identified in new research published today.   view more (2007-02-23)

MOST ACQUISITION OF MENINGITIS BACTERIA AMONG STUDENTS OCCURS IN FIRST WEEK OF UNIVERSITY TERM
A study of 2,500 first year Nottingham University students, led by Neal and colleagues of the University?s Department of Public Health Medicine, showed that the carriage rate of bacterial meningitis strains had quadrupled within the first four days of the autumn term. Students living in catered... view more (2000-03-21)

Protein research could lead to new meningitis vaccine
New technology is leading to a vaccine against Group B Streptococci (GBS), a common cause of meningitis as well as a frequent cause of pneumonia in newborns. Key proteins have been found that can kick-start the immune system to fight these bacteria, scientists heard today (Tuesday 09 April 2002) at... view more (2002-04-03)

The complexities of genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis revealed
Researchers working in Vietnam have identified a genetic variant that predisposes people to developing a lethal form of tuberculosis (TB), tuberculous meningitis, if they are infected with a strain of TB known as the Beijing strain.   view more (2008-03-28)

Bacteria research offers hope for new vaccine against meningococci
Each year 170,000 people around the world die of this type of meningitis, according to the World Health Organization, WHO. Bacterial meningitis, as the disease is called, can even spark epidemics: in Africa 250,000 people were affected in a matter of weeks in the late 1990s.   view more (2007-02-21)

Evidence of same-sex mating in nature: the story of Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus neoformans is a major cause of fungal meningitis in predominantly immunocomprised individuals. This fungus has two mating-types/sexes, and mating typically requires two individuals with opposite mating types.   view more (2007-10-19)

Meningitis clotting pathway cracked by UK and US scientists
Strictly embargoed for release 22:00 BST / 17:00 EST Wednesday 8 August 2001 Researchers in the UK and US report in the New England Journal of Medicine this week (9 August) the results of a study in children which may explain why patients with meningococcal septicaemia develop widespread clotting... view more (2001-08-08)

Are antibiotics for suspected childhood meningitis harmful?
Should children with suspected meningitis be given antibiotics before transfer to hospital?   view more (2006-06-02)
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