[Infections by group D streptococci (author's transl)]

A study of the pediatric infections due to group D streptococci, based on the causist of the Pediatric Department of the School of Medicine at Barcelona is performed. It comprises 20 cases of newborn sepsis (one of them with meningitis), and nine urinary infections in children of several ages. The isolated straws, that pertained all to "enterococcus", revealed greatest sensibility in decreasing order to ampicillin, carbenicillin, chloramphenicol, furantoin and gentamicin. In neonatal sepsis the beginning was precocious in 50% of the cases, the frequency of newborns with low birth weight was high (35%), and the course was favourable in 95%; the only case that died was affected of meningitis with pyocephalia. Urinary infections prevailed in the first year of life (44%), but all the affected were older than a month of life. There were characterized by little accused symptomatology, and quickly favourable course of the infection, through adequate antibiotic treatment. Nevertheless, the long term prognosis is darkened by severe renal and urinary malformations that were appreciated in 55% of the patients.