Article: Studies from RWTH Aachen University in the area of bacterial meningitis published.(Report)

According to recent research from Aachen, Germany, "Neurogenesis is increased in experimental models of bacterial meningitis. In this study, neurogenesis was examined after bacterial infection of the CNS, and after stroke and brain trauma in humans."

"Brain sections of patients after death from bacterial meningitis, stroke, or brain trauma and from autopsy cases after death from nonneurologic diseases were investigated by immunohistochemistry. In the dentate gyrus, the density of proliferating cellular nuclear antigen-expressing cells was higher after bacterial meningitis compared to the control group (p = 0.0075). Furthermore, the number of cells expressing the ...

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