This page has moved. Click here to view. Bacterial Meningitis Bacterial meningitis affects 1 in 500 children younger than 2 years. Meningitis most commonly presents with subtle signs and symptoms that may easily be mistaken for a benign childhood illness meningitis, brain infection, spinal meningitis, mengitis, spinal mengitis, spinal meningitis Etiology of Bacterial Meningitis Neonatal Meningitis .
Prematurity is the greatest risk factor for infection in neonates.
In infants, Haemophilus influenzae is the most common bacterium causing meningitis. Bacterial Meningitis Streptococcus pneumoniae is the second most meningitis, brain, spinal meningitis common cause of meningitis in infancy. Neisseria meningitidis has the highest attack meningitis, brain, spinal meningitis rate in children younger than 2 years. Most often the infant is feverish, lethargic, and meningitis, brain, spinal meningitis has meningitis, brain infection, spinal meningitis, mengitis palpable petechiae. Bacterial Meningitis Childhood .