“…This result is much higher than several studies noted that the incidence of intracranial postneurosurgical infection have been ranged between 0.4% to 7.7% [4,5,6,7]. The profile of CSF isolates in this study showed that certain bacteria species were the predominant cause of CNS infection and was similar to other studies [1,2,8,10] . Coagulase negative Staphylococci was responsible for 39.4 of CSF positive culture, which was similar to a recent Iranian study [16].…”