Problems with current drilling methods, techniques to trace the cleanliness of samples collected, and complications with maintaining an aseptic environment are considered here.
Fourteen patients with aseptic meningitis were re-hospitalized but all patients recovered fully without any neurological sequellae.
Frequencies of symptoms and signs in patients with aseptic meningitis were different in patients younger or older than 1 year of age.
Introduction of aseptic techniques and minimising obstetric intervention helped reduce maternal mortality.
Aseptic meningitis in infants <2 years of age : diagnosis and aetiology.
Aseptic meningitis occurs within two years of the primary infection, the patient often presenting with confusion and evidence of cranial nerve palsy.
In our outbreak cases of aseptic meningitis were probably only a small proportion of all echovirus infections.
It was not possible to compare the cases of aseptic meningitis in 2001 with previous years as there is no routine reporting system.
