Mortality Rates Associated with Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis over the Past 90 Years.
Posted by Clark Venable on 10/28/2004
NEJM: Mortality Rates Associated with Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis over the Past 90 Years
""The history of community-acquired bacterial meningitis arguably represents the best example of the salutary effect of the introduction of antimicrobial agents. Before the use of specific antiserums, the outlook for patients with bacterial meningitis was dismal (see Figure). In the 1920s, 77 of 78 children at Boston Children's Hospital who had Haemophilus influenzae meningitis died...""
Lot's of progress. Lots more work to do. Much of it by drug companies...
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