This page has moved. Click here to view. Mengitis Bacterial mengitis affects 1 in 500 children younger than 2 years. Etiology of Bacterial mengitis Neonatal mengitis .
Prematurity is the greatest risk factor for infection in neonates.
In infants, Haemophilus influenzae is the most common bacterium causing mengitis. Bacterial mengitis Streptococcus pneumoniae is the second most mengitis, brain, spinal mengitis common cause of mengitis in infancy. Neisseria meningitidis has the highest attack mengitis, brain, spinal mengitis rate in children younger than 2 years. Most often the infant is feverish, lethargic, and mengitis, brain, spinal mengitis has mengitis, brain infection, spinal mengitis, mengitis palpable petechiae. Bacterial mengitis Childhood .