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Purulent Leptomeningitis in Newborns and Infants

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Developmental Neuropathology

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Scherer (1895) described leptomeningitis in three newborns with bacteriologic identification of E. coli as the causative organism. Barron (1918) reviewed 42 cases from early reports. The clinico-pathologic features of neonatal leptomeningitis were defined subsequently in the series of Craig (1936), Watson (1957), Ziai and Haggerty (1958), Groover et al. (1961), Yu and Grauaug (1963), Overall (1970), and others. Recent symposia on neonatal infections were edited by Remington and Klein (1976) and Isacsohn (1983).

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Friede, R.L. (1989). Purulent Leptomeningitis in Newborns and Infants. In: Developmental Neuropathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73697-1_15

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