Pediatr. praxi. 2017;18(1):8-11 | DOI: 10.36290/ped.2017.002

Purulent meningitis in children

MUDr. Pavla Křížová, CSc., MUDr. Jana Kozáková, MUDr. Věra Lebedová, Ing. Helena Šebestová
Státní zdravotní ústav, Praha

The spectrum of bacteria causing purulent meningitis in children in the Czech Republic has changed over the last decades, depending

on the implementation of vaccination programmes against diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus

influenzae b, and Neisseria meningitidis. Prior to the introduction of the above-mentioned vaccination strategies, these bacterial

agents were predominant; recently, their proportion has dramatically decreased. The 2015 EPIDAT (infectious disease reporting

system) data show ten cases of purulent meningitis in children under 5 years of age, out of which nine were confirmed in children

under 1 year of age, with none of the cases having been fatal. In 2015, surveillance programmes detected, in children under 5 years

of age, 21 invasive pneumococcal diseases, 18 invasive meningococcal diseases, one invasive disease caused by H. influenzae b, and

two cases of invasive haemophilus non-b disease. Purulent meningitis caused by H. influenzae b, pneumococci, and meningococci

are preventable with vaccination, and it is the paediatrician who has a very important role in appealing to parents in order to help

maintain and/or increase the vaccination coverage of small infants against these diseases.

Keywords: purulent meningitis, pneumococcal meningitis, meningococcal meningitis, haemophilus meningitis, vaccination

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