Hospital-based sentinel surveillance for bacterial meningitis in under-five children prior to the introduction of the PCV13 in India

CONCLUSIONS: The results are representative of the burden of bacterial meningitis among under-five children in India. The findings were useful in rolling out PCV in the National Immunization Program. The non-susceptibility to penicillin and multidrug resistance was an important observation. Timely expansion of PCV across India will significantly reduce the burden of antimicrobial resistance. Continued surveillance is needed to understand the trend after PCV expansion in India.PMID:34074545 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.041

Source: Vaccine - June 2, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Yuvaraj Jayaraman Balaji Veeraraghavan C P Girish Kumar Bharathy Sukumar Prabu Rajkumar Boopathi Kangusamy Valsan Philip Verghese Rosemol Varghese Ranjith Jayaraman Ambujam Nair Kapoor Nivedita Gupta K Kanagasabai Joseph K David Jayasri Rajaraman Gowtham Source Type: research