[Etiology of bacterial meningitis in a cohort from Salvador, Bahia].
Bacterial meningitis remains a very important disease world-wide, mainly during childhood. In order to describe the etiology of bacterial meningitis among some children in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil, we retrospectively reviewed 7000 cerebrospinal fluid exams, performed within the period of September 1988 up to August 1995, at the CSF Laboratory, José Silveira Foundation; 892(12.7%) exams met the inclusion criteria; patients less than 16 years of age and clinical meningitis diagnosis. Among 139 cases of bacterial meningitis, H. influenzae type b (Hib) was the most frequent cause (26.0%), all of the cases in children under 5 years. We have been questioning whether the declining Hib disease trend since 1992 has been associated with the use of Hib conjugate vaccines among those children.
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Serviço de Pediatria, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D018073:Haemophilus Vaccines; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
D018073:Haemophilus Vaccines