[Course, prognosis and therapy of enterococcal meningitis as compared with other streptococcal meningitides].

Seventy-five cases of enterococcal meningitis and 182 cases of meningitis caused by other streptococci are collected from the literature and discussed. Enterococcal meningitis occurs preferentially in debilitated patients at the extremes of life, i.e. in infants, small children and the elderly sick. Streptococcal meningitis, by contrast, may occur at any age in infected individuals. Enterococcal meningitis not uncommonly occurs in the presence of mixed infections. Residual defects following recovery are found in both forms of the disease even where therapy was apparently adequate.