Bacterial meningitis: current therapy and possible future treatment options

Corticosteroid Administration and Outcome of Adolescents and Adults With Acute Bacterial Meningitis: A Meta-analysis

(2012) Abdullah M. Assiri et al.   MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS

Pharmacokinetics of Single-Dose Daptomycin in Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Neurological Infections

(2011) Ravina Kullar et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

The NLRP3 Inflammasome Is Differentially Activated by Pneumolysin Variants and Contributes to Host Defense in Pneumococcal Pneumonia

(2011) M. Witzenrath et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

5 versus 10 days of treatment with ceftriaxone for bacterial meningitis in children: a double-blind randomised equivalence study

(2011) Elizabeth Molyneux et al.   LANCET

Glycerol adjuvant therapy in adults with bacterial meningitis in a high HIV seroprevalence setting in Malawi: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial

(2011) Katherine MB Ajdukiewicz et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Glycerol in bacterial meningitis: one strike and out?

(2011) Matthijs C Brouwer et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Cerebrospinal Fluid Penetration of High-Dose Daptomycin in Suspected Staphylococcus aureus Meningitis

(2010) M Shawn Riser et al.   ANNALS OF PHARMACOTHERAPY

Treatment of Meningitis Caused by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium: High-Dose and Combination Daptomycin Therapy

(2010) Jennifer Le et al.   ANNALS OF PHARMACOTHERAPY

Attenuation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Inflammation by the Nonbacteriolytic Antibiotic Daptomycin versus That by Ceftriaxone in Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis

(2010) D. Grandgirard et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Adjuvant glycerol is not beneficial in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

(2010) Cornelia Blaser et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

New understandings on the pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis

(2010) Uwe Koedel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Mechanisms of injury in bacterial meningitis

(2010) Joachim Gerber et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROLOGY

The risk of sequelae due to pneumococcal meningitis in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

(2010) Mark Jit   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Complement: a key system for immune surveillance and homeostasis

(2010) Daniel Ricklin et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

The Evaluation and Management of Bacterial Meningitis

(2010) Andrew L. Lin et al.   NEUROLOGIST

Modulation of Brain Injury as a Target of Adjunctive Therapy in Bacterial Meningitis

(2010) Uwe Koedel et al.   Current Infectious Disease Reports

Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review

(2009) Meenakshi Ramakrishnan et al.   BMC Medicine

Oxidative stress and S-100B protein in children with bacterial meningitis

(2009) Sherifa A Hamed et al.   BMC Neurology

Short-term rifampicin pretreatment reduces inflammation and neuronal cell death in a rabbit model of bacterial meningitis*

(2009) Annette Spreer et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Daptomycin: mechanisms of action and resistance, and biosynthetic engineering

(2009) Richard H Baltz   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Improving the outcomes in children with bacterial meningitis

(2009) Heikki Peltola et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Therapy of community-acquired acute bacterial meningitis: the clock is running

(2009) M Klein et al.   EXPERT OPINION ON PHARMACOTHERAPY

Clinical Features, Outcome, and Meningococcal Genotype in 258 Adults With Meningococcal Meningitis

(2009) Sebastiaan G. B. Heckenberg et al.   MEDICINE

Oxidative Stress in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Aseptic and Bacterial Meningitis

(2009) Charlene Cavalheiro de Menezes et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Delayed cerebral thrombosis after initial good recovery from pneumococcal meningitis

(2009) E. S. Schut et al.   NEUROLOGY

Focal parenchymal lesions in community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: a clinico-radiological study

(2009) Juri Katchanov et al.   NEURORADIOLOGY

The role of complement in innate and adaptive immunity to pneumococcal colonization and sepsis in a murine model

(2009) D. Bogaert et al.   VACCINE

Apoptosis Is Essential for Neutrophil Functional Shutdown and Determines Tissue Damage in Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis

(2009) Uwe Koedel et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Activity of Daptomycin against Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Cerebrospinal Fluid

(2008) L. Spanjaard et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

(2008) A. Chaudhuri et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Antibiotic treatment delay and outcome in acute bacterial meningitis

(2008) Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Innate Immunity to Pneumococcal Infection of the Central Nervous System Depends on Toll‐Like Receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4

(2008) Matthias Klein et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Streptococcus pneumoniaeDeficient in Pneumolysin or Autolysin Has Reduced Virulence in Meningitis

(2008) Robert A. Hirst et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Myeloid Src kinases regulate phagocytosis and oxidative burst in pneumococcal meningitis by activating NADPH oxidase

(2008) Robert Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

The role of Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence factors in host respiratory colonization and disease

(2008) Aras Kadioglu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial meningitis: An urgent need for further progress to reduce mortality and morbidity

(2008) K. L. Tyler   NEUROLOGY