%0 Journal Article
%T Pediatric meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis,
Streptococcus pneumoniae and Group B Streptococcus in Tijuana,
Mexico: active/prospective surveillance, 2005¨C2018
%A Christopher Roberts
%A Enrique Chacon-Cruz
%A Erika Zoe Lopatynsky-Reyes
%A Jorge Arturo Alvelais-Palacios
%A Lucila Alejandra Almada-Salazar
%A Rosa Maria Rivas-Landeros
%J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2049936119832274
%X In Mexico, Neisseria meningitidis is considered to be a rare cause of bacterial meningitis (BM), however, one national publication using active surveillance has suggested the opposite. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is also considered to be infrequent in young infants as a cause of BM in central Mexico. Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccination using the 13-valent conjugate vaccine (PCV13) started in our region in May 2012. We focused our research on whether N. meningitidis and GBS are important causes of BM, and to examine the effectiveness of PCV13 on pneumococcal BM
%K bacterial meningitis
%K Group B Streptococcus
%K Neisseria meningitides
%K pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
%K Streptococcus pneumonia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413420/