Isolation and Identification of Bacterial Meningitis  From Children

AdeebaY.Shareef,

	Isolation and Identification of Bacterial Meningitis From Children
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-302
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Abstract
Fifty samples of C.S.F. were collected from Patients with suspected to have meningitis with ages, ranged from less than 1 month to seven years.The results showed that the rate of bacterial infection was 26%, the causative bacteria includes both Gram positive and negative bacteria. Gram positive constitute 53.8% of which Streptococcus pneumoniae formed the highest rate (25%) followed by Staph. aureus, Staph. simulanus with percentage 15.4%, 7.7% respectively and lastly Listeria monocytogenes 7.7%. While gram negative bacteria was isolated at a rate of 46.2% Nesseria meningitidis constitute the highest isolation rate (30.8%) then Haemophilus influenzae,Pseudo.aerginosa at ratio of 7.7% for them.The study also showed that the rate of infection was higher in females (53.84%) while it was 46.15% in males. It appeared that N. meningitidis and Strep. pneumoniae was isolated at a rate of 50% from children less than one month and Strep. pneumoniae was also isolated at a rate of 28.57% from children aged between 1 month to four years while Staph.aureus was isolated at rate of 66.7% from children more than four years,Staph. Simulanus, Listeria monocytogenes, Nesseria meningitidis and Pseudomonas aeroginosa was isolated from children between 1 month to four years only at arate of 14.28, 14.28, 28.57, 14.28 respectively. the results also showed that 30.8% of the patients with Bacterial Meningitis had hydrocephalus and those patient have also an increase in the number of white blood cells (96) cells/ml3 compared with 33 cells/ml3 and in protein concentration 1.6 mmol/L and 0.8 mmol/L while there is no difference in glucose concentration which showed low concentration in both groups.

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