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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1995 41(5):308-310; doi:10.1093/tropej/41.5.308
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Bacterial Meningitis: Still a Cause of High Mortality and Severe Neurological Morbidity in Childhood

A. S. Daoud*,*, M. Al-Sheyyab*, R. G. Batchoun**, M. O. Rawashdeh*, M. M. Nussair*** and R. N. H. Pugh{dagger}

*Departments of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, Jordan
**Departments of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, Jordan
***Eidoun Military Hospital Irbid, Jordan
{dagger}Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University Al Ain, UAE

Dr Azhar S. Daoud, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, PO Box 3030, Irbid, Jordan.

Among 121 cases of bacterial meningitis (age 2 months to 12 years; mean, 35 months) treated over a 3-year period, Neisseria meningitidis was the most common pathogen (33 per cent), then Haemophilus influenzae (32 per cent) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (15 per cent). In the H. influenzae group, 95 per cent were aged below 2 years. Overall mortality was 12 per cent: higher in the S. pneumoniae (17 per cent) and less common organism (21 per cent) groups. Neurological sequelae in 21 (20 per cent) of the 106 survivors included hearing impairment in 17 and quadriparesis in eight. Meningitis caused by S. pneumoniae contained a significantly higher proportion of children with neurological morbidity (P = 0.0128). The addition of dexamethasone treatment during the third year produced an apparent but not significant trend towards less mortality (P = 0.7568), fewer neurological sequelae (P = 03401) and less hearing impairment (P = 03903). Despite the availability of effective chemotherapy, bacterial meningitis will remain an important cause of high mortality and considerable morbidity.


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