25. Myelitis and bacterial meningitis

Article type: Letter to Editor
Article title: Myelitis and bacterial meningitis

Journal: Libyan Journal of Medical Sciences
Year: 2019
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
Spinal cord involvement is an uncommon complication of acute bacterial meningitis. Many causative organisms have already been published in these concomitant pathologies, such as Corynebacterium jeikeium,  Escherichia More Details coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae,  Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Streptococcus agalactiae. In this letter, we would like to improve the description of the possible pathological mechanisms of this co-occurrence found in the literature.
Keywords: Myelitis, meningitis, spinal cord, pathophysiology

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DOI
10.4103/LJMS.LJMS_50_19

Citation
Rissardo JP, Fornari Caprara AL. Myelitis and bacterial meningitis. Libyan J Med Sci 2019;3:108-9