ASEPTIC MENINGITIS IN ADULTS CAUSING BY VIRUS, BACTERIA, DRUG WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO ZOONOTIC PARASITES

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Consultant of Microbiology and Immunology, Military Medical Academy, Egypt.

2 Consultant of Tropical Medicine, The Ministry of Interior Hospitals, Egypt.

3 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Abstract

Diagnosis of a patient with aseptic meningitis may be so-difficult because of the large variety of potential etiologic agents as viruses, fungi, parasites and some drugs and the overlap between self-limited viral illnesses and potentially fatal bacterial infections.

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