chronic meningitis

chronic meningitis
a variable syndrome of fever, headache, lethargy, stiff neck, confusion, nausea, and vomiting, with pleocytosis and with or without hypoglycorrachia, which fails to improve over a period of 4 weeks; it may be produced by any of a large number of infectious agents and noninfectious conditions.

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