| endemic bacterial meningitis in sudanese children: aetiology, clinical findings, treatment and short-term outcome. | during the period april 1985 to november 1986 (18 months), 196 children (of age greater than 1 month) admitted to the children's emergency hospital in khartoum, sudan, with clinical suspicion of meningitis/meningoencephalitis were followed up prospectively. bacterial meningitis was diagnosed by culture, direct microscopy and/or antigen-detecting assays (co-agglutination and enzyme immunoassay) in 44 infants (25 haemophilus influenzae type b, 8 neisseria meningitidis, 7 streptococcus pneumoniae, ... | 1990 | 1699486 |
| post-endemic acute bacterial meningitis in sudanese children. | the study describes an 18-month surveillance of the epidemiological, clinical and microbiological features of childhood acute bacterial meningitis (abm) seven months after the end of a major epidemic of neisseria meningitidis (mc) in khartoum. a total of 125 children, aged one month to 14 years, who were admitted with a provisional diagnosis of meningitis/meningoencephalitis to the children's emergency hospital (ceh) in khartoum, sudan, were prospectively enrolled in the study. bacterial meningi ... | 1996 | 8898469 |
| childhood acute bacterial meningitis in the sudan: an epidemiological, clinical and laboratory study. | the aims of the present study were to document the epidemiology, clinical features and complications of childhood acute bacterial meningitis (abm) in the sudan during both an inter-epidemic (endemic) period (1985-1986), and the 1988 serogroup a epidemic; and to examine the phenotypic and genetic similarities and differences of neisseria meningitidis strains isolated in the sudan and sweden. a new enzyme immunoassay test (pharmacia meningitis eia-test) was evaluated as a potential rapid diagnosti ... | 1990 | 2115207 |