Twenty year surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Nottingham: serogroups responsible and implications for immunisation.

Aims: To evaluate the incidence, spectrum of clinical manifestations, and outcome of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children. To determine the major serogroups of Streptococcus pneumoniae responsible for invasive disease and the potential coverage by the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.

Methods: Analysis of prospectively recorded information of all children admitted to two teaching hospitals in Nottingham with IPD between January 1980 and December 1999.

Enteric fever and other extraintestinal salmonellosis in University Hospital, Nottingham, UK, between 1980 and 1997.

The clinical spectrum of extraintestinal salmonellosis comprises enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid) and invasive infections due to nontyphoidal salmonellae. This study describes the clinical spectrum, management and outcome of all confirmed cases of extraintestinal salmonellosis in patients admitted to University Hospital, Nottingham, UK, between 1980 and 1997. There were 142 cases (children, 42; adults, 100) of extraintestinal salmonellosis, of which 38 (children, 20; adults, 18) were enteric fever, consisting of 21 cases of typhoid, 12 of paratyphoid A and five of paratyphoid B.

Streptococcus pneumoniae spinal infection in Nottingham, United Kingdom: not a rare event.

Pneumonia and meningitis are the most frequent manifestations of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Spinal infection is considered to be a rarity. Between 1985 and 1997, 8 patients with spinal infection (vertebral osteomyelitis, 3; spinal epidural abscess, 1; both, 4) due to S.

Septic arthritis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae in Nottingham, United Kingdom, 1985-1998.

Pneumonia and meningitis are the 2 most frequent manifestations of Streptococcus neumoniae infection. Pneumococcal septic arthritis is considered to be relatively uncommon. Between 1985 and 1998, 32 (8.

Listeria monocytogenes meningitis in a penicillin-allergic paediatric renal transplant patient.

Currently in many centres the extended spectrum cephalosporins (e.g. cefotaxime and ceftriaxone) are being used empirically for patients with suspected bacterial meningitis.