PMID- 9686125
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19981006
LR  - 20190815
IS  - 0004-282X (Print)
IS  - 0004-282X (Linking)
VI  - 56
IP  - 1
DP  - 1998 Mar
TI  - [Etiology of bacterial meningitis in a cohort from Salvador, Bahia].
PG  - 83-7
AB  - 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, Jose 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.
FAU - Nascimento-Carvalho, C M
AU  - Nascimento-Carvalho CM
AD  - Servico de Pediatria, Hospital Universitario Professor Edgard Santos, 
      Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil.
FAU - Moreno-Carvalho, O A
AU  - Moreno-Carvalho OA
LA  - por
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Etiologia de meningites bacterianas em uma amostra da populacao de 
      Salvador-Bahia.
PL  - Germany
TA  - Arq Neuropsiquiatr
JT  - Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
JID - 0125444
RN  - 0 (Haemophilus Vaccines)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Brazil/epidemiology
MH  - Cerebrospinal Fluid/microbiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Haemophilus Vaccines
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Male
MH  - Meningitis, Bacterial/cerebrospinal fluid/diagnosis/epidemiology/*microbiology
MH  - Retrospective Studies
EDAT- 1998/08/01 00:00
MHDA- 1998/08/01 00:01
CRDT- 1998/08/01 00:00
PHST- 1998/08/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1998/08/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1998/08/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1590/s0004-282x1998000100013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 1998 Mar;56(1):83-7. doi: 10.1590/s0004-282x1998000100013.