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The CSFs were collected over one-year period in 2018 in different hospitals covering all regions of the Kingdom of Morocco, from patients with suspected meningitis. The results showed the confirmation rate per culture recorded a rate of 33% and the RT-PCR of 70%. Molecular epidemiology is predominant of <jats:italic>Neisseria meningitidis<\/jats:italic> followed by <jats:italic>Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> and a dramatic reduction in meningitis due to <jats:italic>Haemophilus influenzae<\/jats:italic> following the introduction of conjugate vaccine in 2007. Also, the epidemiological profile shows a sex ratio M\/F of 1.4 and a median age of 2 years. The national distribution showed a predominant of meningococcal disease followed by pneumococcal disease, especially a dominance of <jats:italic>N. meningitidis<\/jats:italic> over <jats:italic>S. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> in two regions and a slight predominance of <jats:italic>S. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> in the other two regions over <jats:italic>N. meningitidis<\/jats:italic>. Our research shows that culture in our country has less sensitivity and specificity than RT-PCR in diagnosis of bacterial meningitis and that molecular biology technique at bacteriology laboratories is desirable for diagnosis, early management of meningitis cases and in the context of the surveillance of meningitis in Morocco in parallel with culture.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1556\/030.2021.01344","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]],"date-time":"2021-06-14T09:07:06Z","timestamp":1623661626000},"page":"107-112","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1556\/policypage.crossmark.crossref.1","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Simultaneous detection of Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae by quantitative PCR from CSF samples with negative culture in 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