Bacterial meningitis in a diarrhoeal disease treatment centre in Bangladesh, and susceptibility of the pathogens to antimicrobials

Abstract

Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a medical emergency and a global health problem associated with significant mortality and neurologic sequelae (1, 2). An aetiologic diagnosis and determination of the antimicrobial susceptibility require good laboratory services that are lacking in most developing countries. We have retrospectively reviewed 448 patients admitted to our hospital from January 1988 to June 1994 with suspected meningitis...