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Central Nervous System

Meningitis

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  54. van de Beek D, Cabellos C, Dzupova O, et al.  ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016;22:S37-62.
  55. van de Beek D, Drake JM, Tunkel AR.  Nosocomial bacterial meningitis.  N Engl J Med 2010;362:146-54.
  56. van Ettekoven CN, van de Beek D, Brouwer MC.  Update on community-acquired bacterial meningitis: guidance and challenges.  Clin Microbiol Infect 2017;23:601-6.
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  58. Vaudry W.  Steroids in meningitis Part B:  Clinical commentary.  Paediatr Child Health 2006;11:35-6.
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Brain Abscess

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  3. Chun CH, Johnson JD, Hofstetter M, et al.  Brain abscess: a study of 45 consecutive cases. Medicine 1986;65:415-31.
  4. Jadavji T, Humphreys RP, Prober CG.  Brain abscesses in infants and children.  Pediatr Infect Dis 1985;4:394-8.
  5. Mampalam TJ, Rosenblum ML.  Trends in the management of bacterial brain abscesses: a review of 102 cases over 17 years. Neurosurgery 1988;23:451-8.
  6. Mathisen GE, Johnson JP.  Brain abscess. Clin Infect Dis 1997;25:763-81.
  7. Richards J, Sisson PR, Hickman JE, et al.  Microbiology, chemotherapy and mortality of brain abscess in Newcastle - upon-Tyne between 1979 and 1988. Scand J Infect Dis 1990;22:511-18.
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Epidural Abscess

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  2. Babic M, Simpfendorfer CS, Berbari EF.  Update on spinal epidural abscess. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2019;32:265-71.  doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000544.
  3. Bond A, Manian FA,  Spinal epidural abscess: a review with special emphasis on earlier diagnosis.  BioMed Res Intern 2016: https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1614328.
  4. Borum SE, McLeskey CH, Williamson JB, et al.  Epidural abscess after obstetric epidural analgesia.  Anesthesiology 1995;82:1523-6.
  5. Corsini Campioli C, Go JR, Saleh OA, et al.  Anti-staphylococcal penicillin versus cefazolin for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus spinal epidural abscesses.  Infect Dis Soc 2021.
  6. Darouiche, RO.  Spinal epidural abscess.  N Engl J Med 2006;355:2012-20.
  7. de Leeuw CN, Fann PR, Tanenbaum JE, et al.  Lumbar epidural abscesses:  a systematic review.  Global Spinal J 2018;8:85S-95S.
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  9. Howie BA, Davidson IU, Tanenbaum JE, et al.  Thoracic epidural abscesses: a systematic review.  Global Spine J 2018;8:68S-84S.
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  11. Turner A, Zhao L, Gauthier P, et al.  Management of cervical spine epidural abscess: a systematic review.  Ther Adv Infect Dis 2019;6:1-17.  DOI: 10.1177/2049936119863940.

Subdural Empyema

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  2. French H, Schaefer N, Keijzers G, et al.  Intracranial subdural empyema: a 10-year case series.  Ochsner J 2014;14:188-94.
  3. Yoon J, O’Bryan CM, Redmond M.  Intracranial subdural empyema – a mini review.  J Infectiology 2020;3:1-5.

Encephalitis

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  4. Johnson RT.  Acute encephalitis. Clin Infect Dis 1996;23:219-26.
  5. Kimberlin DW, Lin C-Y, Jacobs RF, et al.  Natural history of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections in the acyclovir era.  Pediatrics 2001;108:223-9.
  6. Kimberlin DW, Lin C-Y, Jacobs RF, et al.  Safety and efficacy of high-dose intravenous acyclovir in the management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections.  Pediatrics 2001;108:230-8.
  7. Kolski H, Ford-Jones EL, Richardson S, et al.  Etiology of acute childhood encephalitis at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1994-95.  Clin Infect Dis 1998;26:398-409.
  8. Mailles A, Stahl JP, Bloch KC.  Update and new insights in encephalitis.  Clin Microbiol Infect 2017;23:607-13.
  9. Tunkel AR, Glaser CA, Bloch KC, et al.  The management of encephalitis:  clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  Clin Infect Dis 2008;47:303-27.
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