%0 Journal Article %T Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae as leading causes of pediatric bacterial meningitis in nine Mexican hospitals following 3 years of active surveillance %A Ana Elena Limon-Rojas %A Antonio Luevanos-Velazquez %A Cesar Adrian Martinez-Longoria %A Chandra M. Becka %A Eduardo Llausas-Magana %A Enrique Chacon-Cruz %A Fernando Aguilar-Del Real %A Fernando Ivan Elenes-Zamora %A Fernando Urtiz-Jeronimo %A Francisco Otero-Mendoza %A Jesus Rodriguez-Chagoyan %A Jorge Alejandro Vazquez-Narvaez %A Jose Luis Castaneda-Narvaez %A Laura Karina Aviles-Benitez %A Maria Luisa Volker-Soberanes %A Patricia Arzate-Barbosa %A Ricardo Ruttimann %A Rosa Maria Hinojosa-Robles %A Rosa Maria Rivas-Landeros %A Sandra Beltran %J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines and Immunotherapy". %D 2016 %R 10.1177/2051013616650158 %X Meningococcal meningitis is reported as a rare condition in Mexico. There are no internationally published studies on bacterial causes of meningitis in the country based on active surveillance. This study focuses on finding the etiology of bacterial meningitis in children from nine Mexican Hospitals %K active surveillance %K bacterial meningitis %K children %K meningococcal meningitis %K pneumococcal meningitis %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976720/