Table 1 Bacterial species found in Kenyan neonates and young infants with meningitis.
From: Clinical indicators of bacterial meningitis among neonates and young infants in rural Kenya
Derivation period | Validation period | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Firstweek of life | Age 7 to 59 days | First week of life | Age 7 to59 days | Total | |
Gram positive | |||||
Streptococcus pneumoniae | 1 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 16 |
Group B Streptococci ** | 2 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 13 |
Group A Streptococci | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Group D Streptococci | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Streptococcus viridans | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Staphylococcus aureus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Gram positive cocci* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Gram positive rods | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Clostridium difficile | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gram negative | |||||
Haemophilus influenzae | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Enterobacter sp. | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Non-typhoidal Salmonella sp. | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
Escherichia coli ** | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Psedomonas cepacea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Acinetobacter sp. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Aeromonas sp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kluyvera sp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Vibrio cholera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Neisseria meningitidis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Shigella sp. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Gram negative rods* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
No organism isolated*** | 15 | 31 | 10 | 21 | 77 |
Total | 32 | 68 | 15 | 48 | 163 |