Evolution of bacterial meningitis diagnosis in Sao Paulo State-Brazil and future challenges

Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a severe disease and still represents a serious public health problem with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The most common cases of BM around the world, mainly in Brazil, have been caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influen...

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Published in:	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Main Authors:	Maristela Marques Salgado, Maria Gisele Goncalves, Lucila Okuyama Fukasawa, Fabio Takenori Higa, Juliana Thalita Paulino, Claudio Tavares Sacchi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thieme Revinter Publicações 2013-09-01
Subjects:	Bacterial meningitis molecular diagnosis real time PCR Meningite bacteriana diagnostico molecular PCR em tempo real
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013001000672&lng=en&tlng=en