spinal meningitis

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Related to spinal meningitis: Bacterial Meningitis

spinal meningitis

Inflammation of the membranes enclosing the spinal cord, especially a usually fatal form that affects infants and young children and is caused by a strain of a gram-negative bacterium (Hemophilus influenzae) formerly thought to cause influenza.

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In the article, Seppa wrote that "suppressing immunity amid an infection is ill-advised." John Hereford took issue with that statement, drawing on his own observations as a medical laboratory technician involving cases of spinal meningitis that triggered septic shock.