Caiyun Wang, Hongmei Xu, Gang Liu, Jing Liu, Hui Yu, Biquan Chen, Guo Zheng, Min Shu, Lijun Du, Zhiwei Xu, Lisu Huang, Haibo Li, Sainan Shu, Yinghu Chen
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the clinical epidemiological characteristics including clinical features, disease prognosis of pneumococcal meningitis (PM), and drug sensitivity of S. pneumoniae isolates in Chinese children. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical, laboratory microbiological data of 160 hospitalized children less than 15 years of age with PM from January 2019 to December 2020 in 33 tertiary hospitals in China. RESULTS: A total of 160 PM patients were diagnosed, including 103 males and 57 females The onset age was 15 days to 15 years old, and the median age was 1 year and 3 months...
2024: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology