| meningococcal meningitis in an industrial area adjoining surat city--some clinico-epidemiological aspects. | an industrial area with poor sanitation and inhabited by migrant, male predominant population, situated south to surat city, experienced an outbreak of pyogenic meningitis during 1985-87. a total of 197 cases of meningitis with 34 deaths were reported during a period of 1 1/2 years. neisseria meningitidis was the predominant pathogen isolated from 66 out of 138 csf samples. recently migrated males of productive age groups drawn from the states of uttar pradesh and orissa were predominantly affec ... | 1989 | 2809153 |