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Haemophilus Influenzae Meningitis in Adults
Author(s) -
Whitby M.,
Nimmo G. R.,
Rao A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1982.tb02455.x
Subject(s) - haemophilus influenzae , meningitis , medicine , ampicillin , haemophilus , pediatrics , bacterial meningitis , microbiology and biotechnology , antimicrobial , antibiotics , biology , bacteria , genetics
Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in adults . M. Whitby, G. R. Nimmo and A. Rao, Aust. N.Z. J. Med., 1982, 12, pp. 182–185. Three cases of pyogenic Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in adults have been diagnosed within the Brisbane Metropolitan area in the last twelve months. This has been considered a very unusual cause of meningitis in adults which has not previously been recorded in the Australian literature, and should alert clinicians to a possible alteration in the age specificity of this disease. Two of the three isolates proved resistant to ampicillin; this emphasizes the need to exclude beta lactamase production in all Haemophilus isolates from critical infections. All three patients recovered without significant sequelae but the choice of primary antimicrobial in adult meningitis remains open to question.