Meningococcal bacteremia: clinical and serologic studies of infants with mild illness
R. S. Baltimore and M. Hammerschlag
We report three mildly ill infants who had meningococcal bacteremia and in
whom meningitis or fulminant septicemia never developed. The infants were
observed during a three-month period. Two of these infants had pneumonia,
as evidenced by infiltrates on chest roentgenogram. The serogroups of the
organisms isolated were B, Y, and 135. In none of the infants could
specific bactericidal antibody be demonstrated in acute or convalescent
serum.
