Acute glomerulonephritis following pneumococcal pneumonia

Prior to the antibiotic era, clinical and pathological evidence of nephritis following pneumococcal infection was frequent. Streptococcal pneumonia, however, has received little attention in recent years as a causative factor in immunologic renal disease. Recent reports present substantial evidence for its role in inducing immune glomerulonephritis. This report describes a young man with pneumococcal pneumonia in whom acute glomerulonephritis developed.