lepto

We had stopped vaccinating for "lepto" because we didn't see much of it and the vaccine caused adverse reactions.

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The process is at first attended with a copious effusion of cerebro-spinal fluid into the arachno-pial space and into the ventricles (_serous lepto-meningitis_), but this fluid tends to become purulent, the pus forming in a thin layer over the surface of the brain, and in the sulci between the convolutions (_purulent lepto-meningitis_).

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Macewen has pointed out that cerebral abscess never occurs from pyogenic organisms passing from the middle ear by way of the internal auditory meatus, although lepto-meningitis may do so.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

# -- If the infection spreads to the adjacent arachno-pia (_localised lepto-meningitis_), adhesions usually form, and shut off the infected area from the general arachno-pial space.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

_ -- In bone lesions, particularly compound fractures, infection of the arachno-pia may take place before protective adhesions form, and a diffuse lepto-meningitis results.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

When the theca of the cord is directly infected the spinal symptoms predominate at first, but as the condition progresses it involves the cerebral membranes, and symptoms of acute general lepto-meningitis ensue.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

# -- The spinal membranes may become implicated by direct spread in cases of acute intra-cranial lepto-meningitis, or they may be infected from without -- for example, in gun-shot injuries or in cases of spina bifida.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

_ -- If left to itself, a cerebral abscess usually ends fatally by causing gradually increasing stupor and coma, or by bursting, either into the ventricles or into the sub-arachnoid space, and setting up a diffuse purulent lepto-meningitis.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

The clinical features are similar to those of acute general lepto-meningitis, and in sporadic cases the diagnosis is only completed by discovering the diplococcus intracellularis in the fluid withdrawn by lumbar puncture.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893