G. Popescu, Cristina Popescu, Anișoara Macarei *
* Dr. Gabriel Popescu, asistent universitar; Cristina Popescu, preparator; Anișoara Macarei, medic stagiar – Clinica I de boli infecţioase “Colentina” UMF „Carol Davila”, Bucureşti
Abstract
Bacterial meningitis represent one of the emergency of infectious diseases because of their severe evolution, with a great mortality (6 – 50% – depending of their etiology); the absence of etiologic diagnosis represents a supplementary difficulty, unsolved in 30 – 50% of cases. We studied a group of 350 patients with bacterial meningitis hospitalised in Colentina hospital of Infectious Diseases in 1.1.1995 – 1.VI.1997. We made 3 subgroups: 1. – bacterial meningitis with unknown etiology (MPEN = 162 patients); 2. – meningococcal meningitis (MM = 73 patients); 3. – pneumococcal meningitis (MPn = 101 patients). A number of 14 patients had meningitis caused by other bacterias. The present study proposed a model for MPEN in our country, which is compared with MM and MP, the most frecquently meningitis.