PEDIATRICS Vol. 3 No. 6 June 1949, pp. 764-768
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AUREOMYCIN IN STAPHYLOCOCCIC MENINGITIS COMPLICATING SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE IN SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

JOHN R. ALMKLOV M.D.1 and ARILD E. HANSEN M.D.1

1 The Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas.

The rare occurrence of a spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage in an 11 year old Negro boy with sickle cell anemia is recorded. Of the eight reported cases five have occurred in children. In the study of sickle cell anemia it is evident there is an increasing awareness of this as well as other neurologic complications.

This patient developed staphylococcus albus meningitis which for 12 days resisted combined penicillin, streptomycin and sulfadiazine therapy. The response to aureomycin as a sole therapeutic agent was dramatic, and this represents the first reported case of meningitis treated with this drug.

The use of aureomycin as the only antibiotic in this staphylococcic infection seems to have been fortunate in view of the laboratory findings. In vitro studies disclosed that when penicillin and aureomycin or streptomycin and aureomycin were combined, the result was a decrease in the effectiveness of either drug on staphylococci.

Submitted on February 21, 1949