title: [Etiologic factors for purulent meningitis in children. Twenty years of personal observations].
abstract: Etiological agents in purulent meningitis cases hospitalized during two 9 years periods: 1977-1985 and 1988-1996 were compared. While the percentage of cases caused by Neisseria meningitidis was similar in the two analyzed periods (55.7% i 66.5%, respectively), the percentage of cases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae decreased from 33.5% to 8.4% and the percentages of cases caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b increased from 0.6% to 14.2%. The analysis of the sensitivity of isolated strains of H. influenzae type b shows the occurrence of strains resistant to ampicillin and chloramphenicol.
authors.affiliation: Oddział Zakaźny A Wojewódzkiego Specjalistycznego Szpitala Dzieciecego w Kielcach.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patrzałek
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Natwora-Gołabek
mesh_terms: D000668:Ampicillin Resistance; D002648:Child; D002702:Chloramphenicol Resistance; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D008583:Meningitis, Haemophilus / Q000453:epidemiology; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000453:epidemiology; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000453:epidemiology; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013045:Species Specificity