Microbial Diagnosis in Neonatal Meningitis

This study was conducted in Babylon province in the period from August 2019 to February 2020. The CSF specimens 94 were collected with age range 14day to 6 years from Babylon Hospital for women and children and Al-Zahra Hospital in AL- Najaf (Microbiology unit). The specimens were generally collected from patients clinically diagnosed by specialist physician from each suspected child with meningitis from lumber puncture by pricking the lumber puncture in an amount of cerebrospinal fluid divided in two tubes, the first is a cytological and bacteriological examination and the second tube is subjected to biochemical tests, results showed lymphocyte increased at 47.9%, compared to neutrophil at 4.2% and lymphocyte with neutrophil percentage 27.7%. It was also observed that most of the samples are high protein and natural sugar at 92% compared to high protein and low sugar at 8%. The E. coli is most bacteria diagnosed at 4.2% followed by Streptococcus pneumonia at 2.1%. The most common diagnosed viruses is Enterovirus at 41.4 %, followed by Varicella zoster virus at 1.1%, then Human Herpes virus 6 at 1.1%.