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Bacterial Meningitis in Children: Diagnosis and Therapy

From the Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, California and the University of California Irvine, Orange, California. Correspondence to: Harris R. Stutman, MD, Miller Children’s Hospital, 2801 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90801-1428. Received for publication June 1987, and accepted June 1987. DESPITE IMMUNIZATION and antimicrobial prophylaxis strategies aimed at decreasing bacterial meningitis, approximately 20,000 cases still occur annually in the United States in children under 16 years of age.’ The mortality of this infection remains approximately 5 percent in older children and 15-20