STREPTOMYCIN IN THE TREATMENT OF MENINGITIS: REPORT OF 27 CASES TREATED AT THE BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL
- 1 October 1947
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 27 (4) , 494-518
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-27-4-494
Abstract
There was 1 death among 16 cases of meningitis due to Hemophilis influenzae and 2 among 8 cases due to other Gram-negative bacilli. The deaths occurred in 2 patients in whom treatment with streptomycin was begun late in the disease and in the 3d it was associated with the development of a streptomycin-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during treatment. Two of 3 patients with tuberculous meningitis are living and their disease appears to be arrested.Keywords
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