Clinical features and in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities of community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in Taiwan
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Clinical features and in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities of community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in Taiwan.
Twenty-seven adult patients were identified as having community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis. The K. pneumoniae isolates, collected from cerebrospinal fluid samples, were tested for in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities. The prognostic factors of these 27 patients were also analysed. All of the third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins tested, as well as monobactam, carbapenem ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkg158