Three-Year Multicenter Surveillance of Pneumococcal Meningitis in Children: Clinical Characteristics, and Outcome Related to Penicillin Susceptibility and Dexamethasone Use

To evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates obtained from the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of children with meningitis. To describe and compare the clinical and microbiological characteristics, treatment, and outcome of children with meningitis caused by S pneumon...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 1998-11, Vol.102 (5), p.1087-1097
Hauptverfasser:	Arditi, Moshe, Mason Jr, Edward O, Bradley, John S, Tan, Tina Q, Barson, William J, Schutze, Gordon E, Wald, Ellen R, Givner, Laurence B, Kim, Kwang Sik, Yogev, Ram, Kaplan, Sheldon L
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Analysis Antibiotics Bacterial diseases Bacterial diseases of the nervous system. Bacterial myositis Biological and medical sciences Ceftriaxone Ceftriaxone - pharmacology Ceftriaxone sodium Cephalosporin Resistance Cerebrospinal fluid Child Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Complications and side effects Deafness - epidemiology Deafness - etiology Dexamethasone Dexamethasone - adverse effects Dexamethasone - therapeutic use Diseases Drug resistance in microorganisms Drug therapy Evaluation Female Hearing loss Human bacterial diseases Humans Incidence Infant Infant, Newborn Infectious diseases Intubation Male Medical sciences Meningitis Meningitis, Pneumococcal - complications Meningitis, Pneumococcal - drug therapy Meningitis, Pneumococcal - epidemiology Meningitis, Pneumococcal - microbiology Microbial drug resistance Morbidity Mortality Nervous system Organisms Pediatric diseases Pediatrics Penicillin Penicillin Resistance Penicillins Population Surveillance Prospective Studies Retrospective Studies Serotyping Streptococcus infections Streptococcus pneumoniae - drug effects Streptococcus pneumoniae - isolation & purification Streptococcus pneumoniae - pathogenicity Treatment Outcome United States - epidemiology
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