[1–3] Most often these infections are bacterial; rarely is a postepidural injection meningitis case caused by fungi, and when present, fungal infection is often diagnosed only after a patient ...

Fungal meningitis, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious. One of the dead in Tennessee, 80-year-old Reba Temple, was a former health director for rural Hickman County.

"This is very atypical, we normally have about 3,000 bariatric surgeries done per month, but right now we're about half that ...

Persons who acquire HIV end up with compromised immune systems which lead to opportunistic infections like tuberculosis, ...

HIV has been around for over 42 years. But the epidemic has changed medically -- it's now a chronic manageable disease.

Fungal infections thrive in warm ... which led to a Japanese woman's meningitis diagnosis in 2011. While kissing pets isn't always likely to result in these infections, that risk is greater among ...

Health officials have confirmed three cases of fungal meningitis in Minnesota, while hundreds of other patients who were injected with a recalled steroid are being tested. An executive with one of the ...

but they were doing so in a reckless way that led to hundreds of people suffering fungal meningitis and other infections.

Viral and noninfectious meningitis do not usually progress to encephalitis. Bacterial meningitis can lead to encephalitis. And fungal, parasitic, and amebic meningitis usually involve encephalitis.

Neurosurgery Department, UTHealth Houston, TX. (A.B.-G., S.B., S.L.P., M.P.M., H.A.Z., H.A.C., P.R.C., S.B., A.D., L.F.T., R.J.B., R.B., C.-J.C.) ...

Neurosurgery Department, UTHealth Houston, TX. (A.B.-G., S.B., S.L.P., M.P.M., H.A.Z., H.A.C., P.R.C., S.B., A.D., L.F.T., R.J.B., R.B., C.-J.C.) ...