Observations on Pneumococcal Meningitis as a Complication of Kala-Azar
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uncommon but grave complication. During the recent outbreak of kala-azar in Calcutta that commenced after the Bengal famine of 1943. increasing numbers of seriously complicated cases of kala-azar were seen (Sen Gupta, 1947) and one of the grave complications was pneumococcal meningitis. During the last two years, 1945 and 1946, four cases of kala-azar who had developed this complication were admitted under the care of the senior writer into the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases. (During this period 314 cases of kala-azar were admitted into the hospital.) Except for the mention of finding two cases of pneumococcal meningitis in the post-mortem examination of 40 cases of kala-azar by Rogers (1919), there is apparently no recent record of this complication in kala-azar in the available medical literature. The notes of these four cases, along with the post-mortem findings of one of the cases, are presented below and the findings discussed.
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