title: [Agents of acute juvenile bacterial meningitis and the importance of bed-side culture].
abstract: In order to certify the significance of the bedside culture in acute bacterial meningitis (ABM), the results of CSF cultures performed at the bedside and in the laboratory were compared in 66 children with ABM. The etiologic agents were isolated in 83% of bedside cultures and in 62% of laboratory cultures. N. meningitidis was isolated from bedside cultures in 30 patients, 14 of these have failed to grow in laboratory cultures. There was no difference between the two methods for the isolation of bacteria other than N. meningitidis. Consequently, it can be said that the bedside culture is the most reliable culture method in ABM especially due to N. meningitidis.
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008581:Meningitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification*
vernacular_title: Cocuklarda akut bakteriyel menenjit etkenleri ve hasta başinda yapilan kültürün önemi.