Trimethoprim sulphamethoxazole in neonatal Flavobacterium meningosepticum infection.
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Trimethoprim sulphamethoxazole in neonatal Flavobacterium meningosepticum infection.
During an outbreak of Flavobacterium meningosepticum septicaemia in a neonatal intensive care unit 9 infants were treated with intravenous trimethoprim sulphamethoxazole. Bacteriological cure was achieved in 8 patients; one infant died of massive intraventricular haemorrhage on the first day of treatment. Apart from prolonged persistence of pre-existing thrombocytopenia there was no evidence of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.59.6.582