Fig 1.
Enrolment, diagnoses and outcome.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of meningitis in rural Gambia: 10 years of population-based surveillance.
Table 2.
a: Incidence per 100,000 population of clinically suspected meningitis, suspected non-bacterial meningitis and acute bacterial meningitis among children ≤14 years of age (2008–2017), by year (n = 1427).
b: Incidence per 100,000 population of clinically suspected meningitis, suspected non-bacterial meningitis and acute bacterial meningitis among children ≤14 years of age (2008–2017), by age (n = 1427).
Fig 2.
Annual Case Fatality Ratio of Clinically Suspected Meningitis (CSM), Suspected Non-Bacterial Meningitis (SNBM) and Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) among children aged 1 day -14 years in Upper River Region Gambia, 2008–2017.
Fig 3.
Age Strata Case Fatality Ratio of Clinically Suspected Meningitis (CSM), Suspected Non-Bacterial Meningitis (SNBM) and Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) among children aged 1 day -14 years in Upper River Region Gambia, 2008–2017.
Table 3.
Fatal outcome of meningitis in rural Gambia (2008–2017).
Fig 4.
Seasonal Distribution of Clinically Suspected Meningitis (CSM), Suspected Non-Bacterial Meningitis (SNBM) and Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) Over 10 Years in Upper River Region Gambia, 2008–2017.
Table 4.
Frequency of bacteria isolated from blood and CSF cultured and corresponding case fatality ratio (CFR) caused among children in Upper River Region Gambia, 2008–2017 (n = 169).
Table 5.
Distribution of twenty-one pneumococcal serotypes causing pneumococcal meningitis (n = 44).
Table 6.
Bacterial antimicrobial resistance patterns against nine antibiotics.