Acute
bacterial meningitis is fulminant, often fatal pyogenic infection
beginning in the meninges. Symptoms include headache, fever, and
stiff neck. Without rapid treatment, obtundation and coma follow.
Diagnosis is by CSF tests. Treatment requires antibiotics,
often beginning empirically with a 3rd- or 4th-generation cephalosporin,
vancomycin, and...
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch218/ch218b.html
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