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Vaccine-preventable pediatric postmeningitic sensorineural hearing loss in southern india
The study goal was to assess vaccine-preventable pediatric postmeningitic sensorineural hearing loss in southern India. We conducted a prospective pilot study from January through March 2001 in a tertiary pediatric hospital in southern India. Sixty-five patients were studied. Thirty-five (54%) patie...
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Published in: | Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery 2004-03, Vol.130 (3), p.339-343 |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | The study goal was to assess vaccine-preventable pediatric postmeningitic sensorineural hearing loss in southern India.
We conducted a prospective pilot study from January through March 2001 in a tertiary pediatric hospital in southern India.
Sixty-five patients were studied. Thirty-five (54%) patients had positive cerebrospinal fluid cultures, with the most common organisms being
Streptococcus pneumoniae and
Haemophilus influenzae. An additional 10 (15%) patients were diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis. Of 28 patients who could comply with audiometric evaluations, 8 (28%) had sensorineural hearing loss.
The etiologic organisms of bacterial meningitis in this study population are similar to those organisms in the developed world, with the minority exception of tuberculous meningitis. Further, a similar prevalence of postmeningitic sensorineural hearing loss occurred.
An effective vaccination program against
S. pneumoniae and
H. influenzae type b should reduce the prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss due to bacterial meningitis in developing countries with similar bacterial profiles. |
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ISSN: | 0194-5998 1097-6817 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.otohns.2003.11.017 |