• Ghana medical journal · Mar 1971

    Forty-seven cases of pyogenic meningitis in adults in Korle Bu Hospital, Accra.

    • D R Haddock.
    • Ghana Med J. 1971 Mar 1; 10 (1): 3-8.

    AbstractForty-seven cases of pyogenic meningitis treated at Korle Bu Hospital are described. Twenty-two were pneumococcal and in the other 25 no organisms were isolated from the C.S.F. The mortality rate was high (62%). Late presentation, extracerebral sepsis and fulminant infection were common. Clinical features, reasons for the high mortality rate, treatment and possible measures to improve the situation are discussed.

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