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Translation for 'meningitis' from English to Croatian

meningitis

meningitis {m}med.

• meningitis {m} = meningitis

• Unlike viral meningitis, Lyme lymphocytic meningitis tends to not cause fever, last longer, and recur.
• Webb became a patron of Meningitis UK after suffering from viral meningitis.
• Overall, the 1996 meningitis epidemic in northern Nigeria killed about 12,000 people, during the worst known meningitis outbreak in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Tuberculous meningitis, also known as TB meningitis or tubercular meningitis, is a specific type of bacterial meningitis caused by the "Mycobacterium tuberculosis" infection of the meninges—the system of membranes which envelop the central nervous system.
• Meningitis is the most common neurological presentation in early syphilis.

• In 1986 an outbreak of meningitis in Stonehouse led to the founding of The Meningitis Trust.
• In acute meningitis, serum PCT is useful as a biomarker for sepsis.
• In 2012, Pollard Sepulveda was elected chairwoman of The Meningitis Foundation of America, Inc., having previously been an honorary committee member for the National Meningitis Association.
• Ian Schranz has survived bacterial meningitis three times, making him a recurrent meningitis sufferer.
• Meningitis Now is a national charity based in the United Kingdom.

• It is used to distinguish between bacterial and viral meningitis, as it is often lowered in bacterial meningitis and normal in viral meningitis.
• It can be useful in distinguishing among causes of Meningitis. It is more likely to be elevated in bacterial meningitis than in viral meningitis.