Ceftazidime vs. Standard therapy for pediatric meningitis: Therapeutic, pharmacologic and epidemiologic observations

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 408-415

  Rodriguez, William J ^a,b   Puig, José R ^c   Khan, Waheed N ^a   Feris, Jesús ^c   Gold, Bess G ^a,b   Sturla, Carlos ^c  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c School of Medicine   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG TOXICITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JOINT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KINETICS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0022625571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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