Bacterial meningitis.

Acute Disease Adolescent Adult Age Factors Ampicillin/pharmacology,therapeutic use California Child Child, Preschool Chloramphenicol/pharmacology,therapeutic use Haemophilus influenzae/drug effects Humans Imidazoles/therapeutic use Infant Meningitis/drug therapy,mortality Meningitis, Haemophilus/drug therapy,mortality Meningitis, Meningococcal/drug therapy,epidemiology,mortality Meningitis, Pneumococcal/drug therapy,mortality Middle Aged Neisseria meningitidis/drug effects Penicillin G/pharmacology Penicillins/therapeutic use Streptococcus pneumoniae/drug effects Streptomycin/therapeutic use

Imidazoles Penicillins Chloramphenicol Ampicillin Penicillin G Streptomycin