A response to Yasri et al. comments on recurrent pneumococcal meningitis

[摘要] We thank for the comments related to our paper “Predisposing conditions and outcome in adult patients with recurrent pneumococcal meningitis”.1,2 We do not think that our results are in contrast with those in the study published by Maria Ugalde-Mejia et al.3 in which the mortality (26.7%) was actually similar with the mortality in our study, where there were 43 deaths out of 194 pneumococcal episodes (22.1%). In our study, the mortality in recurrent pneumococcal meningitis was low (2.3%), in contrast with the mortality in the whole group. This finding was also reported by other authors.4,5 Indeed these patients were younger and with less comorbidities as stated in the conclusions.

[学科分类] 精神健康和精神病学