Table 3: Gender wise distribution of clinically suspected and culture positive bacterial meningitis cases.

Gender Clinically Suspected Meningitis Cases
n (%)
Culture Positive Meningitis Cases
n (%)
Meningococcal Peningitis Cases
n (%)
p-value (Calculated Using Chi-square Test)
Female 167 (43.1) 14 (43.7) 2 (22.2) 0.93
Male 220 (56.8) 18 (56.2) 7 (77.8)
The meningococcal isolates were susceptible to the commonly used antibiotics. All the meningococcal isolates were susceptible to ceftriaxone, chloramphenicol, meropenem and minocycline; however, 22% isolates showed resistance to cotrimoxazole and 11% intermediate resistant to ciprofloxacin (Table 4).