FRIEDLANDER BACILLUS MENINGITIS: REPORT OF SEVEN CASES WITH TWO RECOVERIES
Authors: S S JACOB, F H TOP
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 May 1948FRIEDLANDER BACILLUS MENINGITIS: REPORT OF SEVEN CASES WITH TWO RECOVERIESS. S. JACOB, M.D., F. H. TOP, M.D., F.A.C.P.S. S. JACOB, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, F. H. TOP, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-28-5-1003 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the past 19 years there have been a total of 2879 cases of meningitis admitted to the Herman Kiefer Hospital. Of this total, there have been but five cases of Friedlander's meningitis. During the last 30 years at Henry Ford Hospital there have been 498 meningitis cases of which two were of the Friedlander type. Combining these two series gives a total of 3377 cases of meningitis of which only seven were attributed to the Friedlander bacillus. 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