• Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 1993

    Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial

    Antibiotic therapy for bacterial meningitis in children in developing countries.

    • P Kumar and I C Verma.
    • Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
    • Bull. World Health Organ. 1993 Jan 1; 71 (2): 183-8.

    AbstractWe carried out a study to investigate the effectiveness of chloramphenicol alone as a treatment for bacterial meningitis. A total of 70 consecutive children aged > 3 months with bacterial meningitis, who had been admitted to the paediatric hospital of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, were randomized to receive chloramphenicol alone or chloramphenicol + penicillin. The two groups were matched with each other. Treatment failure occurred with three (9%) patients in the chloramphenicol-alone group and with four (12.1%) patients in the combination therapy group (P > 0.05). The mean duration of intravenous therapy, the number of intravenous cannulae used per patient, and the incidence of thrombophlebitis were significantly higher for the group that received the combination therapy. Also, the cost of using chloramphenicol + penicillin was four times higher than that of chloramphenicol alone. Hence, chloramphenicol alone was as effective as chloramphenicol + penicillin and much cheaper and more convenient to use.

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