Group B Streptococcal Meningitis: A Description of Six Case Reports

Meningitis—Six Case Reports

Group B Streptococcal Sepsis in a Newborn: a Case Report

Newborns’ bacterial infections due to group B Streptococcus (GBS) happen in two forms including early-onset disease or late-onset disease. In this paper, we report a case of early-onset GBS infection in a male infant. A 22-year-old primigravid woman delivers a term normal looking male infant. Nasal flaring, grunting, and poor feeding presented soon after birth. An empiric treatment wit...

Neonatal group B streptococcal meningitis.

Bacteriological and clinical data on 68 children with neonatal group B streptococcal meningitis were analysed as part of a wider study of bacterial meningitis undertaken between 1976 and 1982. Twenty five per cent of patients died and there was no difference in the mortality rate between early and late onset disease. Sixteen per cent of the infants weighed less than 2500 g at birth but in 50% n...

Group A streptococcal meningitis: a case report.

Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococcus, GAS) is a rare cause of bacterial meningitis, accounting for less than 1% of cases. GAS meningitis has rarely been reported in children, and is associated with a high (46%) rate of morbidity and a high (10-17%) case fatality rate. This paper describes a case of meningitis caused by GAS in a previously healthy child; M protein genotyping demonstrate...

Group B streptococcal meningitis in an adult.

Group B streptococcal meningitis in an adult Sir, Group B streptococcal infection causing acute septicaemia and meningitis is rare inadults and accounts for less than 1% of cases. Group B streptococcus is a very invasive organism which seldom causes acute inflammation at the site of entry to the body and the appearance is usually unheralded. A 45-year-old woman was admitted for varicose vein su...