Clinical and laboratory characteristics of pneumococcual meningitis in the samarkand region

In this article, the clinical and laboratory aspects of the course of pneumococcal meningitis (PM) in the Samarkand region over the past 10 years have been studied. Studies have shown that pneumococcal meningitis most often affects children under one year old (30%); in the clinical picture of the same intensity, general in-fectious, cerebral and meningeal symptoms are detected. The main percentage of cases of the disease is associ-ated with the primary lesion (70.3%). A high percentage of mortality and the formation of complications. Re-sidual effects are presented: asthenoneurotic syndrome (71%), sensorineural hearing loss (9%), cardiopathy (6%), arthritis (6%), hydrocephalus (5.5%), ataxic syndrome (2%), lesion of the cranial nerve (3.7%). The im-munochromatographic test for the presence of pneumococcal soluble antigen in the cerebrospinal fluid (Binax NOW - Streptococcus pneumoniae Test) used in our studies is a more rapid method for diagnosing pneumococ-cal meningitis.