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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMed Central Review Open Access Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of bacterial meningitis in Egypt Lamyaa Shaban1,2 and Rania Siam* 1,3,4 Address: 1Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 2US-Naval Medical Research Unit-3, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, 3YJ-Science and Technology Research Center (STRC), American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt and 4Department of Biology, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Email: Lamyaa Shaban - lamyaa.shaban@; Rania Siam* - rsiam@ * Corresponding author Published: 24 September 2009 Received: 9 May 2009 Accepted: 24 September 2009 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2009, 8:26 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-8-26 This article is available from: /content/8/1/26 © 2009 Shaban and Siam; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Infectious diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. In Egypt bacterial diseases constitute a great burden, with several particular bacteria sustaining the leading role of multiple serious infections. This article addresses profound bacterial agents causing a wide array of infections including but not limited to pneumonia and meningitis. T