Meningococcal meningitis in children admitted to Zagazig fever hospital

ABSTRACT

Bacterial meningitis remains relatively a common disease worldwide, N. meningitides is a leading cause of meningitis. The present work is done to identify N. meningitides with evaluation of the rapid diagnostic tests for detection of this pathogen. N. meningitides was isolated from [50.5%] of meningitis cases. It is more common during cold months. The sensitivity and specificity of Acridine orange are [98.3% and 100%], latex agglutination test, 92.2% and 100% coagulatination test are [87.9% and 75.0%]. From this work, it can be concluded that combination of classical cultural methods with acridine orange stain, latex agglutination or coaggultination test is of high diagnostic value