Nationwide Trends in Hospitalizations and Clinical Outcomes for Meningitis and Encephalitis: A 10-year Swiss Population-based Study
Lennart Essmann, Claudia Gregoriano, Philipp Schuetz, Anna Conen, Alexander Kutz · 2026
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Description
Lennart Essmann and colleagues read a decade of Swiss hospital records for infections in and around the brain. Over twenty-three thousand cases of meningitis or encephalitis span twenty twelve to twenty twenty-one in their 2026 study of the whole country. Pathogens and outcomes split sharply by age.
Case counts climbed year by year until twenty nineteen, then dropped hard during the pandemic years. Meningitis from pneumococcus and enterovirus fell furthest, hinting that the same curbs blocked them too. Young children carried enterovirus and streptococcus, while patients over fifty hosted pneumococcus, listeria, and tick-borne viruses. Bacterial cases landed in the ICU and died far more often than viral ones.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lennart Essmann, Claudia Gregoriano, Philipp Schuetz, Anna Conen, Alexander Kutz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |