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Report of a Case

DONALD E. HOLDSWORTH, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1960;106(5):653-656.

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Meningitis resulting from infection by Hemophilus influenzae is primarily a disease of children, whereas in adults such an infection is a rarity. Pike¹ reviewed the literature in 1955 and added one case, bringing the number of reported cases to 29. Cameron Howe² added two cases in 1957, and Selman and Seides ³ contributed another case in 1958. Domz and Dickson,⁴ Wechsler and Wolf,⁵ and Sanford et al.⁶ each added a case of Hemophilus influenzae meningitis in adults with agammaglobulinemia. A review of the cases at Hartford Hospital from 1938 to 1958 yielded only one other case. This was a postoperative neurosurgical patient who underwent craniotomy. The following case is believed to be the 36th reported in the literature.

Report of Case

A 63-year-old white Polish-born woman was admitted to the Medical Service of the Hartford Hospital on March 28, 1958, at 11:30 p.m. in a semicomatose condition. Past medical history . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Hartford, Conn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 10, 1959.

Resident in Medicine, Hartford Hospital.

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