Bacterial concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid in childhood meningitis;Concentrations bacteriennes dans le liquide cephalo-rachidien au cours des meningites de l'enfant

Presse Medicale

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 1227-1230

  Mariani Kurkdjian, P ^a   Doit, C ^a   Le Thomas, I ^a   Aujard, Y ^b   Bourrillon, A ^a   Bingen, E ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b Service de Neonatologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033606432     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Mc Cracken GH. Current management of bacterial meningitis in infants and children. Ped Inf Dis 1992 ; 11:169-74.
2. Barry AL, Smith PB, Turck M. Cumitech 2, laboratory diagnosis of urinary tract infections. Coordinating ed., T.L. Gavan. 1975. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
3. Edberg SC. Methods for quantitative microbiological analyses that support the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of human infection. Crit Rev Microbiol 1981 ; 8:339-97.
4. Werner AS, Cobbs C, Kaye D, Hook. Studies on the bacteremia of bacterial endocarditis. J Am Med Assoc 1967 ; 202:199-203.
5. Feldman WE, Richmond VA. Concentrations of bacteria in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with bacterial meningitis. J Pediat 1976 ; 88:549-52.
6. La Scolea LJ, Dryja D. Quantitation of bacteria in cerebrospinal fluid and blood of children with meningitis and its diagnostic significance. J Clin Microbiol 1984 ; 19:187-90.
7. Feldman WE. Relation of concentrations of bacteria and bacterial antigen in cerebrospinal fluid to prognosis in patients with bacterial meningitis. N Engl J Med 1977 ; 296:433-5.
8. e Conférence de Consensus en thérapeutique anti-infectieuse. Texte court. Med Mal Inf 1996 ; 26:945-51.
9. Comité de l'antibiogramme de la Société Française de Microbiologie. Communiqué 1998. Bull Soc Fr Microbiol 1998 ; 13:243-58.
10. Jorgensen JH, Ferraro MJ, Mc Elmeel ML et al. Detection of penicillin and extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates by use of the E-test. J Clin Microbiol 1994 ; 32:159-63.
11. Doit C, Denamur E, Picard B, Geslin P, Elion J, Bingen E. Mechanisms of the spread of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae strains causing meningitis in children in France. J Infect Dis 1996 ; 174:520-8.
12. Kum-Nji P, Luedtke GS, Leggiadro RJ. Bacterial blood and cerebrospinal fluid isolates in infants one to three months old. Ped Infect Dis J 1995 ; 14:252-3.
13. Schuchat A, Robinson K, Wenger JD et al. Bacterial meningitis in the United States in 1995. N Engl J Med 1997 ; 337:970-6.
14. Peltola H, Kilpi T, Antilla M. Rapid disappearance of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis after routine childhood immunisation with conjugate vaccines. Lancet 1992 ; 340:592-4.
15. Laferrière C, Marks MI, Welch DF. Effect of inoculum size on Haemophilus influenzae type b susceptibility to new and conventional antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1983 ; 24:287-9.
16. Syriopoulou V, Scheifele W, Sack CM, Smith AL. Effect of inoculum size on the susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae type b to beta-lactam antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1979 ; 16:510-13.
17. Hatch DL, Overturf GD. Delayed cerebrospinal fluid sterilization in infants with Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis. J Infect Dis 1989 ; 160:711-5.
18. Lebel MH, McCracken GM. Delayed cerebrospinal fluid sterilization and adverse outcome of bacterial meningitis in infants and children. Pediatrics 1989 ; 83:161-7.
19. Kaplan SL, Patrick CC. Cefotaxime and amino-glycosides treatement of meningitis caused by gram-negative enteric organism. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1990 ; 9:810-4.
20. McCracken GH, Threlkeld N, Mize S et al. Moxalactam therapy for neonatal meningitis due to gram-negative enteric bacilli. A prospective controlled evaluation. JAMA 1984 ; 252:1427-32.
21. John CC. Treatment failure with the use of a third-generation cephalosporin for penicillin-resistant pneumococcal meningitis: case report and review. Clin Infect Dis 1994 ; 18:188-93.
22. Bingen E, Bourrillon A. Méningites purulentes du nourrisson. Est-il urgent de modifier le traitement de première intention ? Presse Med 1994 ; 23:763.
23. Bourrillon A, Doit C, Bingen E. Méningites bactériennes de l'enfant. Stratégies antibiotiques. Presse Med 1998 ; 23:1183-5.
24. Doit C, Bonacorsi S, Fremaux A et al. In vitro killing activities of antibiotics at clinically achievable concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid against penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from children with meningitis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1994 ; 38:2655-9.
25. Doit C, Barre J, Cohen R, Bonacorsi S, Bourrillon A, Bingen E. Bactericidal activity against intermediately cephalosporin - resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in cerebrospinal fluid of children with bacterial meningitis treated with high doses of cefotaxime and vancomycin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997 ; 41:2050-2.
26. Bourrillon A, Cohen R, Bingen, Doit C, Barré J, Desauziers E and the study group. Prospective study of cefotaxime 75mg/kg × 4/day plus vancomycin 15 mg/kg ×4/day as first line therapy of pneumococcal meningitis in children. 18ème Réunion Interdisciplinaire de Chimiothérapie Anti-Infectieuse, Paris, 1998:Abstract 33/C6.
27. Bingen E, Goury V, Bennani H, Lambert-Zechovsky N, Aujard Y, Darbord JC. Bactericidal activity of β lactams against Haemophilus influenzae: effect on endotoxin release. J Antimicrob Chemother 1992 ; 30:165-72.
28. Modai J. Pénétration des antibiotiques dans le liquide céphalo-rachidien (LCR) chez l'homme. Med Mal Inf 1996 ; 26:1032-43.
29. e Edition 1997.
30. Lutsar I, Ahed A Friedland I et al. Pharmacodynamics and bactericidal activity of ceftriaxone therapy in experimental cephalosporin-resistant pneumococcal meningitis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997 ; 41:2414-17.
31. Pomeroy SL, Holmes SJ, Dodge PR, Freigin RD. Seizures and neurologic sequelae of bacterial meningitis in children. N Engl J Med 1990 ; 323:1651-7.