meningitis

meningitis, inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges

Parent Class

contagious disease

Types

aseptic meningitis, Arboviral encephalitis

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis

Symptoms

▶ fever, Mental confusion, seizure, dementia, Somnolence,  …

Cranial nerve disorder, headache, Sensorineural hearing loss, spasticity, Kernig sign positive, Neck stiffness, photophobia, Hyperventilation, Hyperprolactinaemia, delirium, Meningism, Opisthotonus, Rigor, rash, Pallor, Ligyrophobia, Malaise, Nuchal Rigidity, Nuchal Rigidity, Nuchal Rigidity, Nuchal Rigidity, Nuchal Rigidity, Nuchal Rigidity, neck pain

Experts

Johnjoe McFadden, Woldemar Kernig

Class

▶ Inflammatory conditions, neurological disease, phenomenon, medical condition, Neurological conditions,  …

cause, medical concept, symptom, cause of death, disease

Causes

▶ AIDS, Borrelia burgdorferi, syphilis, rabies, Kawasaki disease,  …

measles, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Listeriosis, plague, Behçet's disease, exanthema subitum, cholesteatoma, skull fracture, meningococcal disease, Group B streptococcal infection, tuberculous meningitis, Actinomycosis, Viral meningitis, Rift Valley fever, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, Lady Windermere syndrome, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, ehrlichiosis, St Louis encephalitis, Klebsiella sp, Angiostrongyliasis, West Nile fever, Eastern equine encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Queensland tick typhus, Powassan encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis virus, Kumlinge virus encephalitis, Colorado tick fever, Louping ill, Japanese encephalitis

Killed

▶ Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Amedeo Modigliani, Unity Mitford, Ram Mohan Roy,  …

Brook Benton, Alessandro Manzoni, Julius Schreck, James "Grizzly" Adams, Andy Dill, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Susy Clemens, Addie Joss, Wayne A. Downing, Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Larry Parnes, Josef Hassid, Yvonne Vera, Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine, Charles Eliot, John Barry, Jan Mark, Tiny Grimes, Dennis Miller Bunker, Makobo Modjadji, Edgar Wilson Nye, Sre?ko Kosovel, Yuriko Miyamoto, Nick Duncombe, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, George Reynolds, Langdon Brown Gilkey, James Phillips, Darrin Morris, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Lafayette C. Baker, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Alexander Slobodyanik, Muriel Byck, Hashiguchi Goyō, Maximilian Kronberger, Gabriel Tiacoh, Frank Tenney Johnson, John Harron, Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Nakahara Chuya, Clara Maffei, Grace Dyer Taylor, Mike Morgan, Saud Memon, Rufus Mayes, Marjorie Fleming, Anne de Guigne, Rush Clark, Rosa Maltoni, Santos Franco Sánchez, Voltairine de Cleyre, Stephen J. Hay, Len Hodges, Siphiwo Ntshebe, Mike Leadbitter, Ivan Toms, Joseph Graybill, Homer Smoot, Jimmy Munro, Wayne Lum, Eric Heineman, Edward Hartwick, Hashiguchi Goyō, Voltairine de Cleyre

Cause of

▶ dementia; headache; Somnolence; delirium; Hyperventilation;  …

photophobia; syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone hypersecretion; spasticity; Meningism; Raised intracranial pressure; Hyperprolactinaemia; Opisthotonus; seizure; Central sleep apnea; Neck stiffness; Kernig sign positive; Sensorineural hearing loss; Cranial nerve disorder; Oligoclonal bands (CSF); Diabetes insipidus, non-nephrogenic

Related Websites

▶ http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/index.html, http://www.meningitis.org/symptoms/other-languages, http://www.meningitis.org, http://www.nmaus.org, http://www.meningitisfoundationofamerica.org,  …

http://www.meningitis-trust.org.nz, http://www.meningitis-trust.org, http://www.meningitisuk.org, http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00118.html, http://www2.ncid.cdc.gov/travel/yb/utils/ybGet.asp?section=dis&obj=menin.htm, http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk, http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section14/chapter176/176a.jsp, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs141/en

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Meningitis

Diseases DB id

"22543"

Mesh ID

"D008581"

Cause

▶ AIDS, syphilis, rabies, Escherichia coli, Kawasaki disease,  …

measles, Systemic lupus erythematosus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, Listeriosis, plague, Behçet's disease, exanthema subitum, cholesteatoma, Bacteroides, skull fracture, meningococcal disease, JC virus, Group B streptococcal infection, Actinomycosis, Rift Valley fever, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, Schistosoma japonicum, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis, Lady Windermere syndrome, Herpes B Virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Balamuthia mandrillaris, Enterobacter sakazakii, Streptococcus suis, ehrlichiosis, Campylobacter fetus, St Louis encephalitis, Klebsiella sp, Angiostrongyliasis, Deoxyguanosine, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile fever, Queensland tick typhus, Powassan encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis virus, Pontiac fever, Kumlinge virus encephalitis, Nipah virus, Secondary syphilis, Salmonella typhi, Enterovirus 70, Colorado tick fever, Louping ill, Japanese encephalitis, Acanthamoeba

Rare Terms

▶ "menegitus"; "cryptococcal meningitis"; "meningoccocal"; "brain fever"; "menegitis";  …

"meningitus"; "meningitis, viral"; "meningitis, bacterial"; "leptomeningitis"; "viral meningitis"

Principal Class

medical condition, medical concept, disease

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