Investigators can use this form to collect standardized patient information to notify public health officials about suspected meningitis cases.

Assessors can use this checklist as a guide to conduct a laboratory supervisory visit to improve laboratory quality and provide technical support.

Assessors can use this tool to conduct an initial laboratory assessment of overall laboratory capacity for detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens.

Public health authorities can use this standardized guidance to investigate reports of serogroup A meningococcal disease in countries that have introduced meningococcal A conjugate vaccine.

Laboratories can use this testing algorithm for the identification and characterization of the three predominant causative agents of bacterial meningitis.

Laboratorians can use this guidance document to assist with ordering, transportation and handling of T-I media.

Laboratorians can use this testing scheme as a guide to test for bacterial meningitis pathogens.