Burden of bacterial meningitis in India: Preliminary data from a hospital based sentinel surveillance network

• Yuvaraj Jayaraman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Balaji Veeraraghavan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Bharathy Sukumar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Boopathi Kangusamy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Ambujam Nair Kapoor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

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• Nivedita Gupta,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

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• Sanjay Madhav Mehendale ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sanjaymehendale.hq@icmr.gov.in

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-4034

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• Hospital Based Sentinel Surveillance of Bacterial Meningitis (HBSSBM) Network Team

  ¶Network Investigators details are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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