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This 8 page report discusses a complicated illness of meningitis. It is (most
often) a bacterial or viral infection of the meninges or the membranes covering the brain
and spinal cord. Knowing if a particular case of meningitis is caused by a virus or
bacterium is essential since both the severity of the illness and how it is treated differ.
However, viral meningitis is usually the less severe form. Bacterial meningitis has the
potential to cause permanent brain damage in the form of mental retardation, seizures, or
paralysis. Diagnosis, treatment, and recent findings are presented. Bibliography lists 8
sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWmgitis.doc
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the fear that the case may be of the highly infectious type (epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis or meningococcal meningitis). For the student working on this project, it will be important to
understand that there are several different forms of meningitis and that all are extremely dangerous. What Is Meningitis? To put a complicated disease in the most simplistic of terms, it
is (most often) a bacterial or viral infection of the meninges or the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Knowing if a particular case of meningitis is caused by
a virus or bacterium is essential since both the severity of the illness and how it is treated differ. However, viral meningitis is usually the less severe form. Bacterial
meningitis has the potential to cause permanent brain damage in the form of mental retardation, seizures, or paralysis. More specifically, meningitis is classified as pachymeningitis when it affects the dura
mater (the outermost membrane) and as leptomeningitis when it affects the pia mater and arachnoid (the inner membranes). According to information from the Centers for Disease Control (2003), prior to
the 1990s: "Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis, but new vaccines being given to all children as part of their routine
immunizations have reduced the occurrence of invasive disease due to H. influenzae. Today, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis are the leading causes of bacterial meningitis" (Internet source). Another form
of meningitis, pachymeningitis, is most often the result of some sort of trauma, such as a skull fracture or through the growth or expansion of an existing infection in the
middle ear, mastoid process, ethmoid sinus, or frontal sinus. Similarly, and something that is much more common is leptomeningitis, which can occur because of an extension of inflammation from
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