Burden of bacterial meningitis in India: Preliminary data from a hospital based sentinel surveillance network.

Yuvaraj JayaramanBalaji VeeraraghavanGirish Kumar Chethrapilly PurushothamanBharathy SukumarBoopathi KangusamyAmbujam Nair KapoorNivedita GuptaSanjay Madhav Mehendalenull null

Published in: PloS one (2018)

We observed that S. pneumoniae was the commonest cause of bacterial meningitis in hospitalized children under five years of age in India. Continued surveillance is expected to provide valuable information and trends in future, to take an informed decision on introduction of pneumococcal vaccination in Universal Immunization Programme in India and will also eventually help in post-vaccination impact evaluation.

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