Hearing loss as a complication of bacterial meningitis in Ghanaian children, Kumasi, Ghana

A retrospective analysis of 1-5 cases of meningitis admitted at the Paediatric Department of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital; Kumasi between January 1987 and February 1988 in presented. The laboratory investigations show that 14 (13.3 per cent) had clear CSF with negative culture. The biochemistry; cell count and type of cells were suggestive of viral meningitis. The remaining 91 (86.7 per cent) cases had turbid CSF syggestuve if bacterial infection