Three-year multicenter surveillance of pneumococcal meningitis in children: clinical characteristics, and outcome related to penicillin susceptibility and dexamethasone use.

M, Arditi; EO Jr, Mason; JS, Bradley; TQ, Tan; WJ, Barson; GE, Schutze; ER, Wald; LB, Givner; KS, Kim; R, Yogev; SL, Kaplan

doi:10.1542/peds.102.5.1087

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Three-year multicenter surveillance of pneumococcal meningitis in children: clinical characteristics, and outcome related to penicillin susceptibility and dexamethasone use.

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Arditi M

Mason EO Jr

Bradley JS

Abstract

Objectives To evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates obtained from the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of children with meningitis. To describe and compare the clinical and microbiological characteristics, treatment, and outcome of children with meningitis caused b...

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