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Bacterial meningitis in children: a French prospective study
Edouard Bingen1, Corinne Levy, France de la Rocque
1Service de Microbiologie EA3105, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France. edouard.bingen@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr
Abstract:
From January 2001 through December 2003, a total of 1084 children with bacterial meningitis were enrolled in a prospective French nationwide survey. The most frequent pathogens found in children older than 28 days were Neisseria meningitis (55.3%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (33.4%). S. pneumoniae was the most frequent pathogen found among infants aged 2-12 months (49.5%), whereas N. meningitidis was the most frequent pathogen among children >12 months old (69.7%). Approximately one-half of S. pneumoniae isolates had diminished susceptibility to penicillin. The case-fatality rates were 7.6% for children with N. meningitidis meningitis and 10.8% for children with S. pneumoniae infection.
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