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

Worldwide, acute bacterial meningitis is a major cause of high morbidity and mortality among under five children, particularly in settings where vaccination for H. influenzae type b, S. pneumoniae and N. meningitidis is yet to be introduced in the national immunization programs. Estimation of diseas...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Yuvaraj Jayaraman, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman, Bharathy Sukumar, Boopathi Kangusamy, Ambujam Nair Kapoor, Nivedita Gupta, Sanjay Madhav Mehendale, Hospital Based Sentinel Surveillance of Bacterial Meningitis (HBSSBM) Network Team
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5955554?pdf=render