دراسة تشخيصية مناعية لالتهاب السحايا البكتيري عند الاطفال

The study included 65 cases of meningitis in the children of ages from year one upto four years of age registered in AlBatool hospital for children in Dayala. The Bacteria mostly responsible of this disease was specified as Coliform (B),, Neisseria, meningitides , Strptococcus pneumonia.It was found that there is a relation between the decrease of Albomine concentration and the infection by this disease. Also a decrease of complementories C4, C3 was noticed. The decrease of complementory C4 was accompanied by bacteria infection of negative Gram stain while complementory C3 was accompanied by positive and negative Gram stain bacteria. The total count of white blood cells was less than normal in all ages and the percentage of lymphocyte and monocyte was less than normal.The study showed that the concentration of the proteins in CSF was higher than normal rates in all of the infected children while the glucose concentration was less than normal in some patients and higher in others in all ages