Bacterial meningitis in Sudanese children; critical evaluation of the clinical decision using clinical prediction rules

Table 5 Re-classification according to the bacterial meningitis score and the international classification of diseases – code for bacterial meningitis

	Re-classification	Cases out of 404 ^a		% Out of 40 ^b
	Re-classification	%	Frequency	% Out of 40 ^b
1	Proven Infectious Meningitis	10%	40 ^b	100%
2	Proven Bacterial Meningitis	1.5%	6	15%
3	Meningococcal meningitis	0.7%	3	7.5%
4	Pneumococcal meningitis	0.7%	3	7.5%

^a Total number of febrile patients who attended the hospital during the study period and were subjected to LP were 503, however, 404 is determined as the denominator because of complete bacteriology and clinical data
^b 17 cases with positive microbial origin -but with normal cellular count- along with all the 23 cases with CSF pleocytosis. Findings on microbes that are not rapid-growing-bacteria will be revealed in other publications

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