ArticleAfrican health sciences2020
Epidemiological study of bacterial meningitis in Tunisian children, beyond neonatal age, using molecular methods: 2014-2017.
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- Systematic review of invasive meningococcal disease epidemiology in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
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- Establishment of a predictive model for purulent meningitis in preterm infants.Translational pediatrics · 2022Article
- The novel biphasic medium for transport, culture and conservation at an ambient temperature of Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSince the 1990s, the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis worldwide has changed thanks to vaccination. In Tunisia, the main causative pathogens were
objectivesWe performed a laboratory case report based-study of suspected bacterial meningitis in Northern Tunisia from January 2014 to June 2017.
methodsCSF samples obtained from children beyond neonatal age with suspicion of meningitis were tested by two real time PCRs, targeting pneumococcus, meningococcus and Hib, and conventional methods.
resultsUsing real-time PCR, 63 were positive including ten supplementary cases compared to conventional methods. A general decrease of bacterial meningitis cases was demonstrated comparing to previous data.
conclusionOur study suggests the predominance of pneumococcal cases. It may provide valuable data on meningitis epidemiology before the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine, which may be useful for future evaluation.
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