Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes (meninges) circumventing your encephalon and spinal cord. The swelling from meningitis typically triggers symptoms such as headache, pyrexia and a stiff neck. Most cases of meningitis in the Coalesced States are caused by a viral infection, but bacterial, parasitic and fungal infections are other causes. Some cases of meningitis ameliorate without treatment in a few weeks. Others can be life-threatening and require emergency antibiotic treatment. Seek immediate medical care if you suspect that someone has meningitis. Early treatment of bacterial meningitis can avert solemn complications. In adults, the most prevalent symptom of meningitis is a rigorous headache, occurring in virtually 90% of cases of bacterial meningitis, followed by neck stiffness (the inability to flex the neck forward passively due to incremented neck muscle tone and stiffness). The classic triad of diagnostic signs consists of neck stiffness, sudden high pyrexia, and altered phrenic status; however, all three features are present in only 44–46% of bacterial meningitis cases. If none of the three signs are present, acute meningitis is profoundly unlikely. Other signs commonly associated with meningitis include photophobia (intolerance to effulgent light) and phonophobia (intolerance to loud noises). Diminutive children often do not exhibit the aforementioned symptoms, and may only be irritable and look unwell. The fontanelle (the soft spot on the top of a baby's head) can bulge in infants aged up to 6 months. Other features that distinguish meningitis from less rigorous illnesses in puerile children are leg pain, arctic extremities, and an aberrant skin color. The rash consists of numerous diminutive, eccentric purple or red spots on the trunk, lower extremities, mucous membranes, conjunctiva, and (infrequently) the palms of the hands or soles of the feet. The rash is typically non-blanching; the redness does not vanish when pressed with a finger or a glass tumbler. Albeit this rash is not obligatorily present in meningococcal meningitis, it is relatively concrete for the disease; it does, however, infrequently occur in meningitis due to other bacteria. To increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals top online publishing journals are indexed in different indexing and archiving services. Indexing provides easy access of the article online. The top online publishing journals publish articles which are cited as references by many authors in their work. Citations are important for a journal to get impact factor. Impact factor is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. The impact of the journal is influenced by impact factor, the journals with high impact factor are considered more important than those with lower ones. Indexing provides easy access of the article online. The international journals are among the best open access journals in the world, set out to publish the most comprehensive, relevant and reliable information based on the current research and development on a variety of subjects. This information can be published in our peer reviewed journal with impact factors and are calculated using citations not only from research articles but also review articles (which tend to receive more citations), editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, short communications, and case reports.
