Multicenter Hospital-Based Prospective Surveillance Study of Bacterial Agents Causing Meningitis and Seroprevalence of Different Serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae Type b, and Streptococcus pneumoniae during 2015 to 2018 in Turkey
Articles > Article · 2020
Authors: MEHMET CEYHAN, YASEMİN ÖZSÜREKCİ, Sevgen Tanir Basaranoglu, Nezahat Gurler, Enes Sali, MELİKE EMİROĞLU, Fatma Nur Oz, NURŞEN BELET, MURAT DUMAN, Emel Ulusoy, Nuri Zafer KURUGÖL, HASAN TEZER, Aslinur Ozkaya Parlakay, ENER ÇAĞRI DİNLEYİCİ, Umit Celik, SOLMAZ ÇELEBİ, Ahmet Faik Oner, Mehmet Ali Solmaz, Adem Karbuz, Nevin Hatipoglu, Ilker Devrim, Ilknur Caglar, Sefika Elmas Bozdemir, EMİNE KOCABAŞ, ÖZLEM ÖZGÜR GÜNDEŞLİOĞLU, Murat Sutcu, Ozge Metin Akcan, NECDET KUYUCU, Fesih Aktar, Soner Sertan Kara, Havva Ozlem Altay Akisoglu, Nilden Tuygun, Zeynep Diyar Tamburaci Uslu, Eda Karadag Oncel, Cihangul Bayhan, ALİ BÜLENT CENGİZ
mSphere, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2020, vol 5
Summary
Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is one of the most common life-threatening infections in children. The incidence and prevalence of ABM vary both geographically and temporally; therefore, surveillance systems are necessary to determine the accurate burden of ABM. The Turkish Meningitis Surveillance Group has been performing a hospital-based meningitis surveillance study since 2005 across several regions in Turkey. Meningococcus was the major ABM-causing agent during the 2015-to-2018 period, during which MenB was the dominant serogroup.