Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: A 12-Year Review

CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988

1988 • 5,737 citations

Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults -- A Review of 493 Episodes

1993 • 1,321 citations

Bacterial Meningitis in the United States in 1995

1997 • 1,275 citations

Dexamethasone Therapy for Bacterial Meningitis

1988 • 614 citations

An Outbreak of Gastroenteritis and Fever Due toListeria monocytogenesin Milk

1997 • 579 citations

Treatment of Bacterial Meningitis

1997 • 504 citations

The Beneficial Effects of Early Dexamethasone Administration in Infants and Children with Bacterial Meningitis

1991 • 490 citations

Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis: Risk Stratification for Adverse Clinical Outcome and Effect of Antibiotic Timing

1998 • 480 citations

Bacterial Meningitis in the United States, 1986: Report of a Multistate Surveillance Study

1990 • 472 citations

Central Nervous System Infection with Listeria monocytogenes : 33 Yearsʼ Experience at a General Hospital and Review of 776 Episodes from the Literature

1998 • 446 citations

Listeriosis

1997 • 406 citations

Listeriosis in Adults: A Changing Pattern. Report of Eight Cases and Review of the Literature, 1968-1978

1980 • 355 citations

Listeriosis

1989 • 329 citations

Bacterial Meningitis

2001 • 324 citations

Spectrum of Complications During Bacterial Meningitis in Adults

1993 • 304 citations

Management of listeriosis

1997 • 299 citations

Dexamethasone treatment for bacterial meningitis in children and adults

1989 • 269 citations

Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults

1997 • 253 citations

Bacterial Meningitis — A Review of Selected Aspects

1965 • 248 citations

Role of foods in sporadic listeriosis. I. Case-control study of dietary risk factors. The Listeria Study Group

1992 • 245 citations

ASSOCIATION OF SPORADIC LISTERIOSIS WITH CONSUMPTION OF UNCOOKED HOT DOGS AND UNDERCOOKED CHICKEN

1988 • 238 citations

Role of Foods in Sporadic Listeriosis

1992 • 228 citations

The Epidemiology of Listeriosis in the United States—1986

1991 • 224 citations

Dexamethasone therapy for bacterial meningitis in children

1993 • 212 citations

Community-Acquired Purulent Meningitis: A Review of 1,316 Cases During the Antibiotic Era, 1954-1976

1980 • 205 citations

The clinical spectrum of bacterial meningitis

1962 • 196 citations

Central Nervous System Infection in the Chronically Immunosuppressed

1982 • 185 citations

Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Listeriosis in Patients with and without Immunosuppressive Therapy

1992 • 181 citations

Bacterial Meningitis: Recent Advances in Pathophysiology and Treatment

1990 • 179 citations

Role of Foods in Sporadic Listeriosis

1992 • 178 citations

Delayed Cerebrospinal Fluid Sterilization and Adverse Outcome of Bacterial Meningitis in Infants and Children

1989 • 162 citations

Listeriosis in Renal Transplant Recipients: Report of an Outbreak and Review of 102 Cases

1982 • 157 citations

Increased Risk of Meningitis and Bacteremia Due to Listeria monocytogenes in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

1993 • 146 citations

Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful

1995 • 143 citations

Risk Factors in Bacterial Meningitis: Charleston County, South Carolina

1973 • 139 citations

Clinical and laboratory aspects of listeria monocytogenes infections with a report of ten cases

1968 • 132 citations

Treatment of Listeria monocytogenes Infection with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole: Case Report and Review of the Literature

1986 • 132 citations

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: A COMPARISON WITH THREE OTHER AMERICAN POPULATIONS1

1974 • 125 citations

Listeriosis in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Who Were Treated with Fludarabine and Prednisone

1992 • 122 citations

Duration of symptoms and outcome in bacterial meningitis

1992 • 116 citations

Beneficial effects of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis

1995 • 114 citations

Oral glycerol and intravenous dexamethasone in preventing neurologic and audiologic sequelae of childhood bacterial meningitis

1995 • 112 citations

875 Cases of bacterial meningitis: Diagnostic procedures and the impact of preadmission antibiotic therapy Part III of a three-part series

1983 • 112 citations

Cerebrospinal fluid as a diagnostic body fluid

1983 • 107 citations

Response to Therapy in an Experimental Rabbit Model of Meningitis Due to Listeria monocytogenes

1979 • 105 citations

Antimicrobial chemotherapy of human infection due toListeria monocytogenes

1995 • 105 citations

The Role of Corticosteroid Therapy in Children With Pneumococcal Meningitis

1991 • 103 citations

Epidemiological Spectrum and Current Treatment of Listeriosis

1991 • 95 citations

Eight hundred and seventy-five cases of bacterial meningitis Part I of a three-part series: Clinical data, prognosis, and the role of specialised hospital departments

1983 • 89 citations

Changing Patterns of Bacterial Meningitis in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1935-1970

1973 • 89 citations

Acute Bacterial Meningitis at Boston City Hospital during 12 Selected Years, 1935-1972

1977 • 87 citations

Approach to Diagnosis of Meningitis Cerebrospinal Fluid Evaluation

1990 • 87 citations

Bacterial Meningitis: Effect of Antibiotic Treatment on Cerebrospinal Fluid

1983 • 83 citations

Clinical usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid bacterial antigen studies

1994 • 80 citations

Listeriosis: An uncommon opportunistic infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

1988 • 76 citations

Listeriosis in Patients Infected with Human Immunodificiency Virus

1990 • 72 citations

Does Prior Antibiotic Treatment Hamper the Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Meningitis?

1972 • 71 citations

Computed tomography before lumbar puncture in acute meningitis: a review of the risks and benefits.

1993 • 69 citations

Listeriosis complicating lymphoma

1967 • 63 citations

Listeria monocytogenes Infections in Patients with AIDS: Report of Five Cases and Review

1991 • 60 citations

Sequelae from bacterial meningitis and their relation to the clinical condition during acute illness, based on 667 questionnaire returns. Part II of a three part series

1983 • 55 citations

Listeriosis in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients: Incidence, Clinical Features, and Treatment

1995 • 50 citations

Listeria monocytogenes Infection and Serotype Distribution Among HIV-Infected Persons in Los Angeles County, 1985-1992

1995 • 49 citations

Why Is Listeria monocytogenes Not a Pathogen in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome?

1986 • 43 citations

Immune responses to active and passive-active vaccination against hepatitis B

1983 • 41 citations

Length of prediagnostic history related to the course and sequelae of childhood bacterial meningitis

1993 • 41 citations

Listeriosis in patients with HIV infection: clinical manifestations and response to therapy.

1990 • 36 citations

Relevance of common tests of cerebrospinal fluid in screening for bacterial meningitis

1991 • 33 citations

Quality assurance study of bacterial antigen testing of cerebrospinal fluid

1995 • 32 citations

ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS

1996 • 29 citations

The Dilemma of Partially Treated Bacterial Meningitis

1976 • 29 citations

Therapy of experimental listeriosis — An evaluation of different antibiotics

1988 • 28 citations

The use of corticosteroids in the management of bacterial meningitis in adults

1996 • 28 citations

Cranial Computed Tomographic Scans Have Little Impact on Management of Bacterial Meningitis

1992 • 26 citations

The Effects of Pre-admission Antibiotics on the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Pyogenic Meningitis

1978 • 18 citations

The value of initial laboratory investigations in the management of meningitis

1983 • 16 citations

Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy in Bacterial Meningitis

1995 • 10 citations

What is the Role of Corticosteroids in Meningitis?

1995 • 6 citations

Bacterial Meningitis

1993 • 6 citations

Value of the Bacterial Antigen Test in the Absence of CSF Fluid Leukocytosis

1991 • 5 citations

Use of latex agglutination testing in diagnosing pediatric meningitis.

1992 • 4 citations

Bacterial Meningitis in the Elderly-Reply

1985 • 3 citations