Successful treatment of Acinetobacter meningitis with intrathecal polymyxin E [17]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 290-292

  Benifla, Mony ^a   Zucker, Gideon ^a   Cohen, Avi ^a   Alkan, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Polymyxins; Post neurosurgical infections

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIQUORRHEA; MENINGIOMA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLISTIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 3543058883     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh289     Document Type: Letter

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