Etiology and Mortality of Purulent Meningitis at the Detroit Receiving Hospital

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IN a careful review of bacterial infections at the Boston City Hospital from the presulfonamide era, 1935, to the modern era of antibiotics, 1957, Finland, Jones and Barnes1 found a general decrease in infections due to Streptococcus pyogenes, but an alarming rise in infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative bacilli. This trend included bacteremia, meningitis and empyema. The mortality in patients with meningitis, however, fell from 80 per cent to 20 per cent in this interval.1 Eigler and his associates2 reported a similar increase in gram-negative meningeal infections at the Mayo Clinic, notably those due to proteus, aerobacter . . .

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