Acute bacterial meningitis in HIV, pacients in southern Brazil: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil



Document title: Acute bacterial meningitis in HIV, pacients in southern Brazil: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Journal: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000334165
ISSN: 0004-282X
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidade Federal do Parana, Hospital das Clinicas, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil
Year:
Season: Jun
Volumen: 65
Number: 2-A
Pages: 273-278
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract Acute communitarian bacterial meningitis and AIDS are prevalent infectious disease in Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of acute communitarian bacterial meningitis in AIDS patients, the clinical and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) characteristics. It was reviewed the Health Department data from city of Curitiba, Southern Brazil, from 1996 to 2002. During this period, 32 patients with AIDS fulfilled criteria for acute bacterial meningitis, representing 0.84% of the AIDS cases and 1.85% of the cases of bacterial meningitis. S. pneumoniae was the most frequent bacteria isolated. The number of white blood cells and the percentage of neutrophils were higher and CSF glucose was lower in the group with no HIV co-infection (p 0.12; 0.008; 0.04 respectively). Bacteria not so common causing meningitis can occur among HIV infected patients. The high mortality rate among pneumococcus meningitis patients makes pneumococcus vaccination important
Portuguese abstract A meningite bacteriana aguda comunitária e a AIDS são doenças prevalentes no Brasil. O objetivo desse estudo foi avaliar a freqüência de meningite bacteriana aguda comunitária entre os pacientes com AIDS e as características clínicas e do líquido cefalorraquidiano (LCR). Foram revistos os dados da Secretaria Municipal da Saúde, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, nos anos de 1996 a 2002. Nesse período, 32 pacientes com AIDS preencheram os critérios para meningite bacteriana aguda, representando 0,84% dos casos com AIDS e 1,85% dos casos com meningite bacteriana aguda. A bactéria mais freqüentemente isolada foi S. pneumoniae. A celularidade total e a porcentagem de neutrófilos no LCR foi mais elevada e a glicose foi mais baixa no grupo sem co-infecção (p 0,12; 0,008; 0,04 respectivamente). Bactérias menos freqüentes como agentes etiológicos de meningite podem ocorrer. A taxa de mortalidade elevada entre pacientes com meningite por pneumococo torna a vacinação importante
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Neurología,
Salud pública,
Virus,
Meningitis bacteriana,
VIH,
Sistema nervioso central,
Brasil,
Líquido cefalorraquídeo,
Neumococos
Keyword: Medicine,
Neurology,
Public health,
Virus,
Bacterial meningitis,
HIV,
Central nervous system,
Brazil,
Cerebrospinal fluid,
Pneumococcus
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