What is Bacterial meningitis?

What is Bacterial meningitis?

• Bacterial meningitis: Bacterial meningitis is a form of meningitis caused by bacteria that normally lives in the mouth and throat. When the immune system is unable to supress this bacteria, it travels to the cerebrospinal spinal fluid in the brain. From there it affects the membranes surrounding the brain.

Bacterial meningitis: Introduction

Types of Bacterial meningitis:

Types of Bacterial meningitis:

• Meningococcal Meningitis
• Pneumococcal meningitis
• Hib meningitis
• TB meningitis
• E coli meningitis
• Streptococcal meningitis
• Group B Streptococcus (GBS) meningitis
• more types...»

Broader types of Bacterial meningitis:

• Meningitis
• Bacterial diseases
• Brain conditions
• Vaccine-preventable diseases
• Brain infection
• Diseases contagious from droplets
• Diseases contagious from saliva
• more types...»

How serious is Bacterial meningitis?

Prognosis of Bacterial meningitis: Untreated, bacterial meningitis is almost always fatal.
Complications of Bacterial meningitis: see complications of Bacterial meningitis
Prognosis of Bacterial meningitis: bacterial meningitis can be quite severe and may result in brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disability. (Source: excerpt from Meningococcal Disease (General): DBMD)

What causes Bacterial meningitis?

Causes of Bacterial meningitis: see causes of Bacterial meningitis
Risk factors for Bacterial meningitis: see risk factors for Bacterial meningitis

What are the symptoms of Bacterial meningitis?

Symptoms of Bacterial meningitis: see symptoms of Bacterial meningitis

Complications of Bacterial meningitis: see complications of Bacterial meningitis

Onset of Bacterial meningitis: Commonly occurs in children aged 1-23 months and in adults older than 60 years

Can anyone else get Bacterial meningitis?

More information: see contagiousness of Bacterial meningitis

Bacterial meningitis: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Bacterial meningitis.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Bacterial meningitis.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Bacterial meningitis: see treatments for Bacterial meningitis
Prevention of Bacterial meningitis: see prevention of Bacterial meningitis
Research for Bacterial meningitis: see research for Bacterial meningitis

Society issues for Bacterial meningitis

Hospitalization statistics for Bacterial meningitis: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Bacterial meningitis:

• 0.005% (692) of hospital consultant episodes were for pneumococcal meningitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 74% of hospital consultant episodes for pneumococcal meningitis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 53% of hospital consultant episodes for pneumococcal meningitis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 47% of hospital consultant episodes for pneumococcal meningitis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 80% of hospital consultant episodes for pneumococcal meningitis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Bacterial meningitis:

Organs and body systems related to Bacterial meningitis include:

• Brain
• Cns
• Meninges

Name and Aliases of Bacterial meningitis

Main name of condition: Bacterial meningitis

Class of Condition for Bacterial meningitis: bacterial

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Bacterial meningitis:

• Bacterial infection of the meninges
• Acute bacterial meningitis
• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• S pneumoniae
• Neisseria meningitidis
• N meningitidis
• Haemophilus influenzae type b
• Hib
• H influenzae
• Community-acquired bacterial meningitis
• Conjugate pneumococcal vaccine
• Conjugate meningococcal vaccine

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