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Review
. 2003 May;88(3):F173-8.
doi: 10.1136/fn.88.3.f173.

Neonatal meningitis

P T Heath  1 , N K Nik Yusoff, C J Baker
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Review

Neonatal meningitis

P T Heath et al. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2003 May.

Abstract

Twelve years ago an annotation was published in Archives of Disease in Childhood regarding the antibiotic treatment of suspected neonatal meningitis. The authors recommended the use of cephalosporins rather than chloramphenicol and advocated intraventricular aminoglycoside treatment in selected cases. They noted the absence of clinical trials with third generation cephalosporins that showed an improvement in mortality or neurological outcome.

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