MENINGITIS CAUSED BY FRIEDLÄNDER'S BACILLUS

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Most bacteria that are capable of causing general septicemia have at one time or another been found responsible for a case of meningitis. A most interesting rôle has been played by bacteria of the mucosus type. Reports have been published of meningitis caused by Streptococcus mucosus, and Bacillus mucosus-capsulatus has been several times found to be the cause of fatal meningitis. And yet, it is rather peculiar, in view of the fairly large number of pneumobacillus septicemias, that not more cases of pneumobacillus meningitis have been reported. I was able to find in the American literature only a single case of Friedländer's meningitis. This case was reported by Malis1and had a fatal outcome. The scarcity of reported and the rarity of nonfatal cases give me special impetus to report another case of pneumobacillus meningitis, this time with a favorable outcome: J. M., a Negro, aged 34, a janitor,

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