[Acute rhinopharyngitis, acute interstitial pneumonia and parieto-frontal brain abscess with H. influenzae type B]

The paper deals with a parietal frontal cerebral abscess caused by HITB biotype I in a girl aged 8 months. First a meningitis is suspected, then a tuberculous meningitis unsuccessfully treated with ampicillin, biseptol, respectively INH, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, prednisone, phenobarbital and chloramphenicol. The patient died through a central respiratory standstill on the 17th day of disease. The anatomopathological examinations revealed a giant parietal frontal cerebral abscess. H.influenzae, (serum type B, biotype I) resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, Kanamycin, rifampicin and tetracycline but sensitive to erythromycin and neomycin was also found. A pharyngeal infection with HITB was presumably the origin of the abscess.