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
Mehmet Ceyhan, Yasemin Özsürekçi, Sevgen Tanır Başaranoğlu, Nezahat Gürler, Enes Salı, Melike Emiroğlu, Fatma Nur Öz, Nurşen Belet, Murat Duman, Emel Ulusoy, Zafer Kurugöl, Hasan Tezer, Aslınur Özkaya Parlakay, Ener Çağrı Dinleyici, Ümit Çelik, Solmaz Çelebi, Ahmet Faik Öner, Mehmet Ali Solmaz, Adem Karbuz, Nevin Hatipoğlu, İlker Devrim, İlknur Çağlar, Şefika Elmas Bozdemir, Emine Kocabaş, Özlem Özgür Gündeşli̇oğlu, Murat Sütçü, Özge Metin Akcan, Necdet Kuyucu, Fesih Aktar, Soner Sertan Kara, Havva Ozlem Altay Akisoglu, Nilden Tuygun, Zeynep Diyar Tamburaci Uslu, Eda Karadağ Öncel, Cihangül Bayhan, Ali Bülent Cengiz
Abstract
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.