Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening infectious disease of the brain that leaves many survivors with long-lasting neurological impairments. Now, researchers show in a study on rats that the ...

Several immune cells help fungi infect the brain and cause meningitis when they should be doing the exact opposite. From the University of Sydney, researchers investigate the immune system’s ...

COLORADO, USA — A high school teacher in Colorado has died after possibly being infected by bacterial meningitis. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

Meningitis, a group of serious diseases which infect the brain's lining, leaves its mark and can affect the body's ability to fight such infections in the future. According to a new study, infections ...

Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening infectious disease of the brain that leaves many survivors with long-lasting neurological impairments. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden ...

Infections with many different types of bacteria including Streptococcus pneumonia, Listeria monocytogens, and Neisseria mengitidis can cause bacterial meningitis. It's estimated that every year over ...

Bacteriologist taking a bacterial culture from a Petri dish. Image: Tim Sandle Bacteriologist taking a bacterial culture from a Petri dish. Image: Tim Sandle Many different types of bacteria can cause ...

Investigators in Israel and Italy have developed a model of the blood-brain barrier, studies of which may lead to prevention of meningitis in newborns. The research is published in Microbiology ...

The human brain remains one of the most protected organs in the body, surrounded by layers of tissue and bathed in specialized fluid designed to prevent harmful substances from reaching this vital ...

Meningitis is a serious, potentially life threatening condition that affects the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Noninfectious meningitis is not related to a viral or bacterial infection ...

Meg Draper was 18 and had joined swimming and netball teams, but died in October from meningococcal type B meningitis (MenB) ...