Prospective comparative trial of ceftriaxone vs. Conventional therapy for treatment of bacterial meningitis in children

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 362-368

  Barson, William J ^a   Miller, Marcia A ^a   Brady, Michael T ^a   Powell, Dwight A ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN G;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG THERAPY; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STREPTOCOCCUS; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0021888351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-198507000-00006     Document Type: Article

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