2014•The Pediatric Infectious Disease JournalRequires access
PCR-Based National Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance in Turkey
Demet Toprak, Ahmet Soysal, Mehmet Ali Torunoğlu, Mehmet Turgut, Salih Türkoğlu, Fabiana Cristina Pimenta, Maria da Glória Carvalho, Xin Wang, Leonard W. Mayer, Gülşen Altnkanat, Güner Söyletir, Bilgül Mete, M. I. Abu Bakr
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Abstract
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.