Serial cytokine profiles in shunt-related ventriculitis treated with intraventricular vancomycin

Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 363-365

  Laborada, Gary ^a   Cruz, Florencia ^a   Nesin, Mirjana ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ventriculitis; Vancomycin, intraventricular

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GENTAMICIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; RIFAMPICIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNT INFECTION; STANDARDIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYTOKINES; DRUG MONITORING; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 27544459364     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088963     Document Type: Article

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