1 Meningitis Division, New York City Department of Health
Lest some unwarranted doubts may arise regarding the therapeutic efficacy of sulfadiazine in the treatment of meningococcal infections (excluding the fulminans type) or the emergence recently of resistant strains, from the article "Meningococcal Disease Due to a Sulfadiazine Resistant Strain" which appeared in Pediatrics, 34:124 (1964), I hasten to point out that both in this article and the reference that it draws upon heavily (J.A.M.A., 186:139, 1963), the only warranted deduction from the data detailed is that Group B meningocci are relatively more resistant or less sensitive to sulfadiazine compared to Group C meningococci on testing in vitro.