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A Report of Four Cases and Review of the Recent Literature

LOUIS P. JERVEY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1963;111(3):376-383.

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The small number of reported cases suggests that Hemophilus influenzae meningitis is an infrequent infection in adults. In 1951, Dolphin and Popham¹ presented a single case of adult influenzal meningitis and reviewed the literature from 1899 to 1948. Of 912 cases discovered, only 25 occurred in individuals over 20 years of age. Wasserman² in 1961 reported a case of Hemophilus influenzae meningitis in a 35-year-old woman and stated that this was the 37th published instance of this disease in an adult. In view of this observed infrequency, the occurrence of 4 cases of adult influenzal meningitis at the Medical College Hospital between 1957 and 1960 is deemed significant enough to justify reporting the observations made on these patients. A review of the records of this hospital since its opening in 1955 failed to reveal other instances of this infection in adults. With the report of these cases and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHARLESTON, S.C.

From the Department of Medicine, Medical College of South Carolina.; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Consultant in Preventive Medicine.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept. 13, 1962; accepted Nov. 1.

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