Viral meningitis is generally less severe and resolves without specific treatment, while bacterial meningitis can be quite severe and may result in brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disability. For bacterial meningitis, it is also important to know which type of bacteria is causing the

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a common etiological agent of hand, foot, and mouth disease and fatal neurological diseases in children. The neuropathogenicity of severe EV71 infection has been documented, but studies comparing mouse models of severe and mild EV71 infection are lacking. The aim of the study was to investigate the neurovirulence of EV71 strains and the differences in serum cytokine -- How Someone Gets it, and 8 Early Symptoms! , Meningitis Information : Viral Meningitis Symptoms , Viral Meningitis Preventive Treatment , Viral meningitis - the hidden impact. , Viral Meningitis Health Byte , How to Treat Spinal Meningitis , Meningitis in Babies and Children - Signs of Meningitis in Toddlers , Meningitis Now: What is Meningitis? Target gene assays for detection and characterization of bacterial meningitis etiologies Over the past several years, conventional and real-time PCR assays have been developed for detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens. Reliable assays have been extensively evaluated using invasive clinical isolates and/or clinical specimens from around the world (8, 12, 15, 17, 29, 35, 52, 60). Viral meningitis. Viral meningitis occurs when any virus affects and infects the brain. The term usually refers to mild meningitis that has no other symptoms and causes no other diseases. Viral meningitis is relatively common and relatively mild. Anyone can get viral meningitis but most people of 40 years of age are immune to it. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (3.2M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also avai