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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 507-510Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.01967.x
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children; Haemophilus influenzae; invasive bacterial infections; Neisseria meningitidis; Russia; Streptococcus pneumoniae
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This study investigated the causes of invasive bacterial infections in children aged < 15 years in St Petersburg, Russia, during 2001-2003, using culture and antigen detection methods (rapid antigen latex agglutination (RAL)) for normally sterile body fluids. A pathogen was detected in 90 cases (culture 50, RAL 40). Neisseria meningitidis was the most common pathogen (66%), followed by Haemophilus influenzae (19%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (16%). Meningitis was the main clinical diagnosis (68/90, 76%), with N. meningitidis serogroup B, H. influenzae type b (Hib), and S. pneumoniae serogroup 1 being the most common isolates. Hib was less prevalent in St Petersburg than it was in industrialised countries before the introduction of Hib vaccinations.
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