Epidemiology of bacterial purulent meningitis in children: Saint Petersburg experience


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The paper presents the experience in managing children with bacterial meningitis at the Department of Neuroinfections, Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia. It comprehensively characterizes the specific features of the clinical picture, premorbid background and outcomes of bacterial meningococcal, pneumococcal, and Hemophilus influenzae type b meningitides. New possibilities of primary prevention of pneumococcal meningitis, by using the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, are described.

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A A Vil'nits

ФГУ НИИ детских инфекций Федерального медико-биологического агентства России, Санкт-Петербург

ФГУ НИИ детских инфекций Федерального медико-биологического агентства России, Санкт-Петербург

Marina Vital'evna Ivanova

ФГУ НИИ детских инфекций Федерального медико-биологического агентства России, Санкт-Петербург

Email: Ivanova@yandex.ru
канд. мед. наук, ст. науч. сотр., и. о. рук. отд. нейроинфекций и органической патологии нервной системы; ФГУ НИИ детских инфекций Федерального медико-биологического агентства России, Санкт-Петербург

A A Vilnits

Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, Saint Petersburg

Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, Saint Petersburg

M V Ivanova

Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, Saint Petersburg

Research Institute of Childhood Infections, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, Saint Petersburg

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