Streptomycin Treatment of Hæmophilus Influenzæ Meningitis Complicating Primary Atypical Pneumonia

H. Influenzæ Meningitis: A Controlled Study of Treatment with Ampicillin

“…This age distribution followed the characteristic pattern which, as shown by Fothergill and Wright (1933), reflects inversely the age prevalence of bactericidal serum antibody. Three per cent (two cases) were young adults, a proportion similar to the 2.7% of patients more than 20 years of age recorded in Dolphin and Popham's (1951) review of 915 cases. There was the expected male predominance.…”

Hemophilus Influenzae Infection in Adults

“…Subjects C-l, C-2, C-3, and C-4, all men over age 45, who were admitted to the medical wards with history of chronic alcoholism and found to have Laennec's cirrhosis by physical examination and laboratory procedures. 6. Subject 3, a normal young man, who had never ingested more than 50 cc.…”

Haemophilus influenzae Meningitis in Adults

“…These cases were all from the U.S.A. with the exception of a small series from India (Grant et al, 1965) which, curiously, reported nine adult cases out of a total of 25. It is difficult to assess from published work how often adult cases occur in the United Kingdom as, apart from an isolated case reported by Dolphin and Popham (1951), there seem to be no published reports. Data obtained from the Public Health Laboratory Service show that in 1971 2.5% of 354 reported cases of H. influenzae meningitis were stated to be over 20 years old and in 1972 2.4% of 410 cases were.…”