Salmonella Meningitis in Infancy

A Review of Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality in an Intensive Care Unit of a Paediatric Health Facility in Lagos, Nigeria

“…Neonatal meningitis, an acute bacterial infection of the central nervous system is associated with remarkable mortality [19] and has long been the focus of studies [20,21]. Other studies [22,23] report that pyogenic meningitis accounted for 2.7% and 3.4 % of infantile and post-neonatal deaths among hospitalised children, respectively in Ilorin and Sokoto, both in Nigeria.…”