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Virginie Zarrouk1, Véronique Leflon-Guibout, Sébastien Robineaux, Michel Kalamarides, Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine, Olivier Sterkers, Bruno Fantin.
Abstract
We previously demonstrated that discontinuing presumptive antibiotic treatment in cases of negative conventional cultures is safe and effective for patients with postoperative aseptic meningitis (PAM). Here, we prospectively investigated 32 patients with postoperative meningitis. All 26 patients with PAM diagnosed on the basis of conventional cultures demonstrated negative 16S rRNA PCR results. Our results suggest that the PCR technique does not change PAM management.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20592153 PMCID: PMC2937738 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00008-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948