PCR-BASED NATIONAL BACTERIAL MENINGITIS SURVEILLANCE IN TURKEY YEARS 2006 TO 2009
Date
2014Author
Turgut, Mehmet
Mete, BİLGÜL
TORUNOGLU, Mehmet Ali
Soysal, Ahmet
Turkoglu, Salih
PIMENTA, Fabiana Cristina
CARVALHO, Maria da Gloria
WANG, Xin
MAYER, Leonard
Altinkanat, Gulsen
Soyletir, Guner
Bakir, Mustafa
Toprak, Demet
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Polymerase chain reaction-based surveillance for bacterial meningitis including 841 children revealed 246 with bacterial DNA in cerebrospinal fluid samples of which 53% were Streptococcus pneumoniae, 19% Neisseria meningitidis, and 16% Haemophilus influenzae type b. The most common S. pneumoniae serotypes/serogroups were 1, 19F, 6A/6B, 23F, 5, 14, 18 and 19A. Among 47 meningococci, 86% were serogroup B, 6% serogroup C, 3% serogroup A, 3% serogroup X and 3% serogroup W.
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