Childhood meningitis caused by enterococci and viridans streptococci.

Selected clinical and laboratory parameters were studied respectively in patients with meningitis caused by enterococci and viridans streptococci in an academic children's hospital. During a nine-year period (1981-1989), enterococci or viridans streptococci were isolated from the cerobrospinal fluid (CSF) of 48 patients. In nine of these 48 patients, enterococci or viridans streptococci were the causative agents of meningitis.