We treated a 66 year-old-male patient with non-traumatic spontaneous E. coli meningitis, whose cerebrospinal fluid showed turbid, and from which E. coli was cultured. and who had urinary tract infection and fatty liver disease which were though
to
be
predisposing factors to the meningitis. Gram-negative bacillary meningitis is a very rare condition aftert he neonatal period, and may be complicated by penetrating ch
anial injuries, neurosurgical interventions or such debilitating diseases as
diabetes, liver cirrhosis, urinary tract infection, malignancy and alcholism, etc. It has a high mortality rate in spite of using various antibiotrcs.
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