Healthcare-associated bacterial meningitis

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 367-373

  Laxmi, Sheethal ^a   Tunkel, Allan R ^a  

^a MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic impregnated catheters.; Antimicrobial agents; Bacterial meningitis; Carbapenems; Cephalosporins; Cerebrospinal fluid; Cerebrospinal fluid shunt; Colistin; Craniotomy; Gram negative bacilli; Head trauma; Healthcare associated infections; Intraventricular antibiotics; Lumbar puncture; Meningitis; Neuroimaging; Nosocomial infections; Prevention of infection; Skull fracture; Staphylococci; Vancomycin; Ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; LACTIC ACID; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER MENINGITIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BASILAR SKULL FRACTURE; CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CRANIOTOMY; CSF SHUNT INFECTION; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG SAFETY; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR CATHETER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD INJURY; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERNAL VENTRICULAR CATHETER; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REIMPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 80052612178     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-011-0190-z     Document Type: Article

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