Epidemiology of bacterial purulent meningitis in children: Saint Petersburg experience
A A Vil'nits , Marina Vital'evna Ivanova , A A Vilnits , M V Ivanova
Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases ›› 2010, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (6) : 52 -54.
Epidemiology of bacterial purulent meningitis in children: Saint Petersburg experience
The paper presents the experience in managing children with bacterial meningitis at the Department of Neuroinfections, Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia. It comprehensively characterizes the specific features of the clinical picture, premorbid background and outcomes of bacterial meningococcal, pneumococcal, and Hemophilus influenzae type b meningitides. New possibilities of primary prevention of pneumococcal meningitis, by using the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, are described.
children / bacterial meningitides / pneumococcus / vaccination
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