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What is the pathophysiological role of the leukocytes in the present situation?
How sure could you be at this stage, a few hours after admission to the hospital, that Josephine is indeed ill with bacterial meningitis? What other diagnoses might be considered? What bacterial agents, other than H. influenzae, cause meningitis? List and briefly describe other illnesses caused by H. influenzae.
- Why did Josephine become ill? Shouldn’t her immune system have stopped the infection from the beginning? Could there be some kind of immunodeficiency?
Catherine received telephone calls from the director at the daycare center. The center’s staff was deeply worried and wished to know the risks for the remaining children of the center and for other center personnel. What should the day care center say to the parents? Should all the children receive preventive treatment? Be specific - Your advice will be of the utmost importance given that the news media may soon become aware of the present series of cases and a whole region alerted.
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The Haemophilus Vaccine: A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
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Pathophysiological role of the leukocytes in the present situation
How sure could you be at this stage, a few hours after admission to the hospital, that
Josephine is indeed ill with bacterial meningitis?
a. Other diagnoses to consider
b. Other bacteria agents that cause meningitis
c. Other illnesses caused by h. Influenzae
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Why did Josephine become ill? Shouldn’t her immune system have stopped the infection
from the beginning? Could there be some kind of immunodeficiency?”
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What should the day care center say to the parents?
a. Should all the children receive preventive treatment?
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The Haemophilus Vaccine: A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
In the absence of disease, the brain is a pathogenically sterile site guarded against attack
by highly specialized barriers, including the restrictive blood-brain barrier (BBB), tough dura
mater, and hard bony skull (Agyeman et al., par. 1). Meningitis is a disorder that entails
inflammation of the meninges following an infection. Bacterial meningitis is a serious medical
event that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Among bacteria species responsible for
human meningitis is the Haemophilus influenzae bacteria (Hib), unencapsulated or encapsulated
strains. To be infected, people must first receive a state of nasopharyngeal colonization, which is
moderately usual in early life. The pathogen must cross the nasopharynx into the gore system,
persevere host shield processes in the intravascu...