12 years active surveillance for pediatric pleural empyema in a Mexican hospital: effectiveness of pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, and early emergence of methicillin-resistant .

Background: Previous publications have proved the effectiveness of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on pneumococcal pleural empyema (PnPE) in children, with little emergence of other pathogens. We searched the literature to establish whether PCV13 reduces PnPE, and to identify other pathogens causing pleural empyemas (PEs).

Material And Methods: From October 2005 to January 2018 (12.

Meningococcal Neonatal Purulent Conjunctivitis/Sepsis and Asymptomatic Carriage of in Mother's Vagina and Both Parents' Nasopharynx.

Neonatal conjunctivitis is usually associated with vagina's infection by sp., , and/or other bacteria during delivery. Meningococcal neonatal conjunctivitis is an extremely rare disease.

Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae as leading causes of pediatric bacterial meningitis in nine Mexican hospitals following 3 years of active surveillance.

Objectives: Meningococcal meningitis is reported as a rare condition in Mexico. There are no internationally published studies on bacterial causes of meningitis in the country based on active surveillance. This study focuses on finding the etiology of bacterial meningitis in children from nine Mexican Hospitals.

An outbreak of serogroup C (ST-11) meningococcal disease in Tijuana, Mexico.

Background: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) has been reported to be endemic in children from Tijuana, Mexico and the risk of an outbreak was always a threat.

Objectives: To describe all clinical, epidemiological and microbiological features of a meningococcal outbreak that occurred in Tijuana, Mexico.

Methods: All cases with IMD were admitted at different emergency departments within the city and diagnosed by culture and agglutination tests.