| laboratory surveillance of viral meningitis by examination of cerebrospinal fluid in cape town, 1981-9. | nine years accumulated laboratory data derived from the culture of the cerebrospinal fluid of 11,360 aseptic meningitis cases were retrospectively reviewed to establish the epidemiology of viral meningitis in cape town. virus was isolated from 3406 of the cases (91% enteroviruses and 9% mumps). five major summer viral meningitis episodes were documented: two of echovirus 4 (706 and 445 cases), echovirus 9 (223), coxsackie a9 (104) and one of unidentified enterovirus (324 cases--probably echo 9). ... | 1993 | 8405162 |
| meningitis in cape town children. | a prospective clinical and microbiological survey of 213 children who presented to the teaching hospitals of the cape peninsula with meningitis was performed during a winter month. the predominant bacterium isolated was neisseria meningitidis and this survey uncovered an outbreak of viral meningitis due to echovirus 4 of the du toit strain. in comparison with previous studies, the absence of fever in 20% of the cases of meningococcal disease and the isolation of n. meningitidis group b organisms ... | 1984 | 6495128 |
| paediatric meningitis in the western cape. a 3-year hospital-based prospective survey. | between july 1981 and june 1984 1223 cases of meningitis were seen in the department of paediatrics, tygerberg hospital. the commonest form in each population group was aseptic meningitis. positive viral cultures were obtained from the csf in 108 cases. the median age of white children with aseptic meningitis, 64 months, was significantly greater than that of coloured children, 45 months (p greater than 0.0001), and black children, 26 months (p greater than 0.014). the commonest cause of confirm ... | 1986 | 3020718 |