De La Rosa RM

Language: Spanish
References: 3
Page: 25-26
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ABSTRACT

Bacterial meningitis is still one of the most serious infectious pathologies in Pediatrics. However inflammation of the meninges may be caused by a wide variety of agents, the initial clinical presentation can be very similar viral meningitis, to a bacterial. 80% occurs in children, especially in children under 10 years old. In the last decade, with the introduction of new vaccines against the most frequent causal germ (Haemophilus influenzae b, Neisseria meningitidis C and Streptococcus pneumoniae) and with the development of more potent antibiotics and good blood-brain penetration, it has decreased the incidence and has improved the prognosis of infection, but the sequelae and mortality have not undergone major changes.

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