Pneumococcaemia complicated by meningitis.
Meningitis developed in 3 of 14 children with occult pneumococcaemia; in 2 of them it developed while they were being treated with low doses of intravenous penicillin, in the third child it developed at a time when he was not being treated. All children with occult pneumococcaemia should be treated with intravenous penicillin as are those with pneumococcal meningitis.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications*; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy
D010406:Penicillins