Publications

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
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
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