1986 Volume 60 Issue 6 Pages 592-601
1294 cases of childhood bacterial meningitis through 1979 to 1984 from questionnaire were studied. The form of questionnaire was consisted of the number of total inpatients and bacterial meningitis in each year, and age, sex, causative organisms, chemotherapy and prognosis of each bacterial meningitis. A frequency and the causative organisms of bacterial meningitis are discussed in the paper. The frequency of bacterial meningitis in total inpatients was 0.37%. The sex ratio (M/F) was 1.63. Nearly 3/4 bacterial meningitis was occurred in infancy. The isolation ratio of the causative organisms was 78.5%. The 5 major causative organisms were Haemophilus influenzae (279 cases), Streptococcus pneumoniae (201 cases), Escherichia coli (114 cases), group B streptococcus (100 cases), and Staphylococcus aureus (29 cases). The former two was obviously dominant over 3 months of life, and the succeeding two was under 3 months of life. Staphylococcus aureus was noted in all age groups. 10 cases were infected with two different organisms. The causative organism was obscure in 279 cases.
