Plague-Meningitis
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چکیده
This is a report on 2 cases of plaguemeningitis observed by us among the comparatively small material of 41 instances of plague treated at Wellington, Nilgiris, in 1945-46. We consider our cases worthy of record as the cerebro-spinal type of plague has been described in very few instances only, the disease being believed to be of extreme rarity. Lewillon, Devignat and Schoetter (1940) reported in 1940 on plague causing primary meningitis. Unfortunately we have not been able to obtain their paper. Meyer of Galifornia, according to Manson-Bahr (1940) ;; described a chronic.;relapsing meningeal form of plague, in which the patients exhibited meningeal symptoms and high fever, P. pestis was isolated in these cases from the blood. Wu Lien-Teh,-;-ChUn, Politzer and Wu (1936) ina detailed review of plague comment with regard to the meningeal; form that only rare instances of this kind have been observed. According to these authors one
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