Meningitis bacterial and viral panel is a multiplex real-time PCR assay that permits simultaneous amplification and detection of target nucleic acids of Neisseria meningitidis (NM), Listeria onocytogenes (LM), Haemophilus influenzae (VZV), Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS), Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP), Escherichia coli K1(EC K1) and viruses like Herpes simplex virus 1, Herpes simplex virus 2, Varicella zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, Cytomegalovirus, Human herpes virus 6 and Human herpes virus 7. Internal Control (IC).