Neonatal meningitis and the developing world
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Neonatal meningitis
Twelve years ago an annotation was published in Archives of Disease in Childhood regarding the antibiotic treatment of suspected neonatal meningitis. The authors recommended the use of cephalosporins rather than chloramphenicol and advocated intraventricular aminoglycoside treatment in selected cases. They noted the absence of clinical trials with third generation cephalosporins that showed an ...
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in neonates than any other age group.1 In spite of considerable advances in antimicrobial treatment, neonatal meningitis remains a scourge with a high mortality and frequent permanent neurological sequelae. The causative agents of neonatal sepsis vary between geographical areas and with time in any particular locality. In North America and Europe, the prevalent bacterial agents of early-onset n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02908_1.x