PEDIATRICS Vol. 67 No. 6 June 1981, pp. 811-815
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Longitudinal Assessment of Children with Enteroviral Meningitis During the First Three Months of Life

Catherine M. Wilfert MD1, Robert J. Thompson Jr PhD1, Theodore R. Sunder MD1, Aglaia O'Quinn MD1, Joan Zeller MS1, and Jill Blacharsh MD1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Nine children who had enteroviral meningitis during the first three months of life and nine matched control children were evaluated for possible sequelae of their infection. The mean age of the children with meningitis was 46.67 months at the time of testing and that of the control subjects was 47.33 months. The mean IQ level of 89.67 in the children with meningitis was comparable to 92.78 obtained in the control children. Receptive vocabulary testing suggested that the receptive language functioning of the group with meningitis was significantly less than that of the control group. There was no significant difference in head circumference, no detectable sensorineural hearing loss, and no detected difference in intellectual functioning between the meningitis group and matched control subjects.

Submitted on May 5, 1980
Accepted on August 15, 1980




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