| Literature DB >> 7608819 |
M Muñoz1, E S Valderrabanos, E Diaz, J J Silva, J A Soult, P Infante, J D Lopez, A Garcia-Curiel.
Abstract
A young boy had meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae that was relatively resistant to penicillin and susceptible to cefotaxime. After 10 days of therapy with penicillin and cefotaxime, fever recurred and a second lumbar puncture revealed a pneumococcus that was resistant to all beta-lactam antibiotics. We now add vancomycin to empiric third-generation cephalosporin therapy for meningitis in children when gram-positive cocci are seen on the cerebrospinal fluid smear.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID： 7608819 DOI： 10.1016/s0022-3476(95)70264-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pediatr ISSN： 0022-3476 Impact factor: 4.406