Successful treatment of three children with post-neurosurgical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii meningitis

Infection

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-244

  Ozdemir H ^a   TapIsIz, A ^a   Ciftci E ^a   Ince, E ^a   Mokhtari, H ^a   Guriz H ^a   Aysev, A D ^a   Dogru U ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COLISTIN; MEROPENEM; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PAPILLOMA, CHOROID PLEXUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77953230363     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-010-0018-z     Document Type: Letter

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