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J R Soc Med 1989;82:206-209
© 1989 Royal Society of Medicine

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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 82, Issue 4 206-209, Copyright © 1989 by Royal Society of Medicine

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Meningitis after splenectomy

CD Selby and PJ Toghill
Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham.

Five splenectomized patients suffered six episodes of bacterial meningitis with positive cerebrospinal fluid cultures. They were admitted to the Nottingham hospitals between 1974 and 1985. The infecting organism in all cases was Streptococcus pneumoniae. Only one patient, who survived, had had pneumococcal vaccine; two patients died in spite of intensive therapy. There is now good evidence for giving prophylactic penicillin to asplenic patients but the efficacy of the pneumococcal vaccine remains uncertain.
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