• Med Mal Infect · Jul 2009

    Review

    [Antibiotic management of pediatric presumptive bacterial meningitis (rational, methods, course, and follow-up)].

    • Hervé Haas.
    • Service d'urgences pédiatriques, hôpital Archet 2, CHU de Nice, 151, route de Saint-Antoine-de-Ginestière, 06202 Nice cedex 03, France. haas.h@chu-nice.fr
    • Med Mal Infect. 2009 Jul 1;39(7-8):647-58.

    AbstractThe epidemiology of acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis in children in industrialized nations was greatly modified because of recommended vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae b, Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) and in some countries against Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) group C. However, most cases of bacterial meningitis are caused by SP and Nm most frequently group B, which validates the first intention use of cefotaxime or ceftriaxone combined or not with vancomycin according to the probability of pneumococcal resistance.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…