Meningitis Due to Streptococcus anginosus

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Abstract
STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS (Lancefield group F) is rarely associated with disease, and the occurrence of meningitis due to this organism has been reported only rarely.1-3 The following case report is of interest because of a rare cause for meningitis. There is also a lesson to be learned regarding the routine methods of culture of cerebrospinal-fluid specimens. Report of a Case The patient, a 38-year-old white male veteran, was first hospitalized at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lexington, Ky, in October 1948 following a head injury. The patient was in a confused and disoriented state when he was admitted. There was cerebrospinal rhinorrhea, with drainage through a fracture of the right frontal bone, which had been demonstrated radiographically. A craniotomy was done and a tear in the dura mater overlying the frontal sinus was repaired. Recovery was uneventful, but there was residual mental impairment. In March 1962 the patient had a

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