Bacterial Meningitis
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Tuberculous meningitis (cont.)<br />
EPIDEMIOLOGY:<br />
• In areas with much tuberculosis,<br />
• tuberculous meningitis usually affects young children<br />
• it develops after the primaty tuberculosis infection<br />
• In areas with less tuberculosis,<br />
• tuberculous meningitis tends to strike adults.<br />
• it is due to reactivation of an old focus of tuberculosis that<br />
had been dormant
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