TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS: CASE REPORT IN PEDIATRICS
Tainá Maia Cardoso
PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH · 2022-09
Abstract
Meningitis can be caused by a variety of infectious agents, such as viruses,fungi and bacteria,and non-infectious agents. Those of infectious origin,caused by bacteria and viruses,are the most important from a public health point of view, due to the magnitude of their occurrence and potential to produce outbreaks. 1 Among them, Mycobacterium tuberculosis is of considerable clinical and epidemiological importance, especially in developing countries.
MeSH terms
- Meningitis
- Outbreak
- Epidemiology
- Tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Virology
- Tuberculous meningitis
- Bacterial meningitis
- Medicine
- Infectious disease (medical specialty)
- Public health
- Bacteria
- Biology
- Intensive care medicine
- Pediatrics
- Microbiology
- Disease