| meningitis in children of riyadh. | one hundred and forty cases of meningitis admitted to the children's hospital in riyadh from june 1980 to the end of may 1982 were included in a prospective study. sixty-seven percent were under 1 year of age and 90% were under 5 years old. one hundred and twenty-four (88.6%) had purulent csf, 12 (8.6%) had viral and four (2.9%) had tuberculous meningitis. e. coli was the commonest causative organism in the neonates. after that age s. pneumoniae was the predominant isolate. the implication of in ... | 1984 | 6398834 |