Abstract
Recent reports have stressed several features of meningitis in the newborn period: high mortality rates despite antibiotic therapy, the absence of symptoms and signs of meningeal irritation and the frequency with which enteric bacilli are the causative agent. The observation that obstetrical complications increase the incidence of neonatal meningitis and that the majority of these infants develop their disease before the sixth day of life suggest that the infection is acquired during parturition. The following case is of interest because of the unusual occurrence in both mother and infant of meningitis due to pneumococci, an organism which is an infrequent cause of meningitis in the neonatal period.
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