bacterial encephalitis


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bacterial encephalitis

[bak′tir·ē·əl in‚sef·ə′līd·əs]
(medicine)
Inflammation of the brain caused by primary or secondary bacterial infection.
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A high proportion (80%) of bacterial encephalitis cases in the PHE data were unmatched, whereas a lower proportion of PHE cases designated as immune-mediated encephalitis (22%) or herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis (33%) were unmatched.
We did find evidence of heterogeneity in etiology, which suggested that in 1 or both datasets, patients with bacterial encephalitis had a different probability of being identified than did patients with encephalitis of other etiologies, which may have led to an overestimate of the number of encephalitis cases.
New estimates of incidence of encephalitis in England
In the California Encephalitis Project, Hispanic Americans accounted for approximately 25% of all cases of encephalitis, 26% of serum samples examined for Balamuthia antibody, and 21% of cases of viral and bacterial encephalitis, but all BAE patients (n = 3) were in Hispanic Americans (Figure).
Balamuthia amebic encephalitis risk, Hispanic Americans
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