[Remarks about twelve cases of pneumococcal septicemias (author's transl)].

Twelve cases of pneumococcal septicemias are studied in a department of internal medicine. These septicemias involved pneumonias often large, multilobular and bilateral, with often pleural effusion purulent or not and in one occurrence meningitis. There was three deaths by acute respiratory failure in one case of liver cirrhosis and in another case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Conditions of antibiotherapy and possible intensive care are discussed, prognosis factors as splenic insufficiency (in sickle cell anemia and after splenectomy) and immune defense against pneuococcus are recalled.