A population-based assessment of invasive disease due to group B streptococcus in nonpregnant adults

Article Abstract:

Bacterial infection with group B streptococci appears to pose a significant health risk not only to pregnant women and newborn children but also to non-pregnant adults. Group B streptococci are the primary cause of meningitis and sepsis among newborns and cause illness in approximately 50,000 pregnant women every year. Group B streptococcal infection was detected in 137 men and non-pregnant women hospitalized in Atlanta, GA. All but two of the patients had at least one serious underlying disease or condition, particularly diabetes and neurologic disease. Overall, advanced age, diabetes and cancer were associated with an increased risk of group B streptococcal infection. Compared with other patients, persons with HIV infection and young adults with diabetes or cancer had 28 to 30 times the risk of infection with group B streptococci.

Streptococcal infections, Streptococcus agalactiae

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Meningococcal disease in Los Angeles County, California, and among men in the county jails

Article Abstract:

Prison administrators need to provide more preventive health services to inmates to avoid the transmission of infectious diseases to the community. Between Jan and Mar, 1993, 54 cases of Neisseria meningitidis infection occurred in Los Angeles County. Nine occurred in men incarcerated in the county jail system and 45 occurred in community residents. Almost half the community residents had been exposed to an inmate or prison employee and the strain infecting them was the same one infecting the inmates. Crowding is a risk factor for the spread of disease and this prison system was operating at 40% above capacity at the time.

Disease transmission, Prisoners, Imprisonment, Meningococcal infections, Jails

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Bacterial meningitis in the United States in 1995

Article Abstract:

The demographics of bacterial meningitis have changed from being an infection primarily in infants and children to being an adult disease. Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain. Analysis of cultures at clinical laboratories serving hospitals in 22 US counties revealed that there were 248 cases of bacterial meningitis in these areas in 1995. This translates into 5,755 estimated cases nationwide that year, which is a 55% reduction from the number of cases nationwide in 1986. In addition, the median age of the patient was 25 years, while the median age in 1986 was 15 months.

Demographic aspects, Meningitis, Bacterial infections

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