Purulent Meningitis of Newborn Infants

Abstract

BACTERIAL meningitis in the newborn infant is a formidable problem: the prognosis is little better today than thirty years ago, despite modern chemotherapeutic agents. This is alarming, for bacterial meningitis is seen more often in the first month than at any other time in life.1 Although neonatal meningitis comprises only 0.5 to 4.0 per cent of unselected autopsy material2 3 4 the problem deserves intensive study to reduce the high morbidity and mortality of a potentially curable disease. In the present study the experience with neonatal meningitis at the Children's Hospital of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati General Hospital over eleven years of . . .