RT Journal
A1 FOLEY GE, SHWACHMAN HH, McGARRY MM, WINTER WD, JR.
T1 MOrphologic characteristics and antibiotic resistance of hemophilus influenzae
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1949
FD November 1
VO 78
IS 5
SP 659
OP 670
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050676002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050676002
AB MENINGITIS due to Hemophilus influenzae is a relatively common disease. That it is a disease primarily of the young and that the mortality of untreated patients varies with the age of the patient are well recognized. For the past fifteen years H. influenzae has ranked first as a cause of bacterial meningitis at the Boston Children's Hospital. The only recent exceptions were the years 1943 and 1944, when there was a high incidence of meningococcic meningitis in the Boston area. Fothergill1 summarized the data from the Children's Hospital from 1933 to 1936; of a total of 190 cases of bacterial meningitis, exclusive of tuberculous meningitis, 51, or 27 per cent, were due to H. influenzae. During the six year period, 1942 to 1947, of a total of 338 cases of bacterial meningitis, 115, or 34 per cent, were due to H. influenzae.Inasmuch as relatively few data are available