Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
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Identification of Streptococcus suis Meningitis by Direct Triplex Real-Time PCR, Burkina Faso
, Mamadou Tamboura, Dinanibe Kambire, Mahamoudou Sanou, Kalifa Ouattara, Malika Congo, Adama Kaboré, Soufiane Sanou, Elie Kabré, Sable Sharpley, Theresa Tran, Stephanie Schwartz, Soumeya Ouangraoua, Abdoul-salam Ouedraogo, Lassana Sangaré, Rasmata Ouedraogo-Traore, Cynthia G. Whitney, and Bernard Beall
Table 2
Characteristics of patients with meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis, S. pyogenes, and S. agalactiae, Burkina Faso, 2015–2018*
| Characteristics | Patients infected, no. (%) |
All patients, no. (%), n = 590 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. suis, n = 21 | S. pyogenes, n = 13 | S. agalactiae, n = 4 | ||
| Age, y | ||||
| <5 | 1 (4.8) | 8 (61.5) | 4 (100) | 307 (52) |
| 5–14 | 3 (14.3) | 5 (38.5) | 0 | 168 (28.5) |
| 15–29 | 2 (9.5) | 0 | 0 | 64 (10.8) |
| 30–49 | 9 (42.8) | 0 | 0 | 37 (6.3) |
| >50 |
6 (28.6) |
0 |
0 |
14 (2.4) |
| Sex | ||||
| M | 16 (76.2) | 9 (69.2) | 2 (50) | 332 (56.3) |
| F |
5 (23.8) |
4 (30.8) |
2 (50) |
258 (43.7) |
| Year CSF collected | ||||
| 2015 | 5 (23.8) | 1 (7.7) | 0 | 87 (14.7) |
| 2016 | 2 (9.5) | 2 (15.4) | 0 | 104 (17.6) |
| 2017 | 6 (28.6) | 3 (23.1) | 2 (50) | 195 (33.1) |
| 2018 |
8 (38.1) |
7 (53.8) |
2 (50) |
204 (34.6) |
| Median leukocytes, cells/mm3 (range) | 400 (51–6,250) | 1,000 (53–8,000) | 1,100 (800–2,400) | 920 (50–8,000) |
| Median Ct (range) | 26.1 (18.13–35.52) | 25.33 (14.78–34.71) | 23.47 (17.24−24.23) | 25.33 (14.78–35.52) |
*CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; Ct, cycle threshold.
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