Step I Bacterial Meningitis UWorld vs FA

[iA-MD2013]

What's the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in adults?
UWorld had a question about a 44 yr old male with a bacterial meningitis (which you can tell from the CSF). Uworld believes he has S. pneumo because S. pneumo is the MCC of bacterial meningitis in adults of all ages. FA does not agree (pg177 of 2011).

What the hell! 😡

 

[iA-MD2013]

Ohh one more thing that UWorld disagrees with FA about:

Is listeria the only gram + bug to produce LPS? This factoid was in FA 2010 and they removed it from FA 2011.

 

[DrYoda]

On pg. 145 FA says it's the leading cause of meningitis (it doesn't specify adult, but I'm assuming adult because it specifies child for otitis media).

Clinical micro made ridiculously simple ed. 3 also says S. pneumo.

 

[Rollo]

There was a thread about this few weeks ago and somebody posted an answer from CDC (scroll to the bottom):

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=806237