Diagnosis and Management of Meningitis
This special issue belongs to the section "Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide scholars with a platform to explore the latest advancements in diagnosing and treating meningitis. It presents a comprehensive overview of meningitis types, symptoms, diagnostic methods, and management strategies, emphasizing the importance of prompt diagnoses and aggressive treatments to minimize long-term neurological sequelae. It also highlights innovative diagnostic tools and therapies that are improving outcomes for patients with meningitis.
We will focus on articles covering a range of topics, including novel diagnostic approaches, utilizing our available diagnostic armamentarium for surveillance, vaccine implementation, antimicrobial sensitivity/resistance patterns, and novel treatment as well as management approaches. It is, therefore, my pleasure to invite submissions of high-quality research-based or review papers related to the aforementioned topics to create a timely and highly relevant collection of articles tackling this pertinent public health problem.
Prof. Dr. Georgina Tzanakaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Invasive Meningococcal Disease
- Molecular epidemiology
- Molecular diagnosis (including advanced sequencing technology)
- Clinical diagnosis
- Clinical management
- Therapeutic approaches
- Vaccine prevention strategies
- MenB protein vaccines
- Vaccination programs and high risk patient populations
- Meningococcal modeling in outbreaks and persistence on vaccine protection
- Emergence of new meningococcal clones
- Surveillance
- Mass gatherings
- preventive measures
- Evolution of hypervirulent strains
- N. meningitidis and non-specific syndromes
- Carriage studies
- Sero-epidemiology
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Published Papers
Diagnostics - ISSN 2075-4418