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metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | Frequency of lymphocytic meningitis associated with mumps before and after a mass campaign for mumps vaccination in children from Salvador, Northeast Brazil |
Other Titles: | Arq Neuropsiquiatr |
Authors: | Carvalho, Cristiana Maria Costa Nascimento de Carvalho, Otavio Augusto Moreno de |
metadata.dc.creator: | Carvalho, Cristiana Maria Costa Nascimento de Carvalho, Otavio Augusto Moreno de |
Abstract: | Objective: To describe the frequency of lymphocytic meningitis(LM) concomitant with mumps, before and after the mumps mass immunization campaign in 1997. Method: Demographic, clinical and cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) information was collected from the chart of all patients aged from 2 to 59 months, whose CSF exam was performed at the CSF Lab/FJS, between 1989 and 2001. LM was defined as pleocytosis composed by lymphomononuclear cells and negative exams for bacterial or mycologic infection. Results: Of 1,519 patients, 894(58.9%) had normal exams. LM was present in 301(19.8%) patients, out of which 22(7.3%) had concomitant mumps. The frequency of LM ranged from 15.8% in 1989 to 19.7% in 2001 and of LM with concomitant Mumps ranged from 10.5% in 1989 to 4.7% in 1995, when the last cases were registered. Conclusion: It is probable that the mumps vaccine campaign has influenced the absence of LM with concomitant Mumps, from 1996 to 2001. |
Keywords: | Meningitis Mumps Immunization Cerebrospinal fluid Lymphocytic meningitis |
Publisher: | Associação Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria Dr. Oswaldo Lange |
URI: | http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/5903 |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (Faculdade de Medicina) |
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