background and objectives : bacterial meningitis is one of the most serious infections and should be treated as emergency. as it has significant morbidity and mortality throughout the world, every country should have precise information regarding the etiological agents of disease and populations at risk to design public health prevention strategy. in the present study in addition of evaluation ...

Serratia species are opportunistic, gram-negative, motile bacteria classified in the large family Enterobacteriaceae and differentiate from Klebsiella spp. with slow fermenting lactose DNAase positive (1,2). One of characteristics that distinguishes them other is to synthesize red pigments, prodigiosins. It can cause nosocomial infections especcialy newborns patients intensive care units. spp.;...

Background: Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) is an important cause of death and long-term neurological disability. Recent Information on the relative frequency of the isolation and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of these pathogens is scarce in Ethiopia.Objective: This study was to document the microbial characteristics, the antibacterial sensitivity pattern, and seasonal variation of commun...

BACKGROUND The value of serum and cerebrospinaL fluid (CSF) procalcitonin for differentiating between acute bacterial and viral meningitis was assessed and compared to other parameters which are usually used in clinical practice. PATIENTS 45 adult patients (20 with bacterial and 25 with tick-borne encephalitis, TBE) were included in this prospective study. RESULTS The median serum procalcit...

Our aim in this study is to compare the standard culture method with the multiplex PCR and the Speed-Oligo® Bacterial Meningitis Test (SO-BMT) - a hybridization-based molecular test method - during the CSF examination of the patients with the pre-diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis. For the purposes of this study, patients with acute bacterial meningitis treated at the Dicle University Medi...

objective: bacterial meningitis is a dangerous and sometimes fatal infection that affects the central nervous system. because some antibiotics can prevent some types of these bacteria and supress them from spreading and infecting, therefore it is important to know what type of virus or bacterium is causing meningitis. haemophilus influenzae and neisseria meningitides are the two main pathogens...