TY - JOUR AU - McCormick, David W. AU - Molyneux, Elizabeth M. T1 - Bacterial Meningitis and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine, Malawi T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 688 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A retrospective database review showed that Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine decreased the annual number of cases of H. influenzae type b meningitis in children in Blantyre, Malawi. Among young bacterial meningitis patients, HIV prevalence was high (36.7% during 1997–2009), and pneumococcus was the most common etiologic agent (57% in 2009). KW - Bacterial meningitis KW - bacteria KW - Haemophilus influenzae type b KW - Hib KW - vaccines KW - epidemiology KW - Malawi KW - HIV KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1704.101045 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/4/10-1045_article ER - End of Reference