Meningitis Tx/prophylaxis guidelines - zirebaran
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Meningitis Tx/prophylaxis guidelines - zirebaran
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10-09-2008, 07:22 AM
Hello,
Can any one help me? How do you treat the close contacts of a child with meningitis? (considering children, adults, vaccinated, unvaccinated) Thanx
10-09-2008, 11:43 PM
meningitis and emperical antibiotic regime
1- in children;listeria monocytogenes-ampicillin and cefotaxime 2-in hospitalized pat.-s.aureus and pseudomonas-vancomycin(to cover s,areus) and ceftazidime (to cover pseudomonas ) 3 pneumcocci-vancomycin and ceftraxone
10-10-2008, 12:12 AM
old age and immunocompromised
ceftrixone+vancomycin+ampicillin (listeria) adults and children....vancomycin+ceftrixone children less than 3 months ...cefotaxime+ampiciilin after surgery... iv ceftazidime+ampicillin
10-12-2008, 07:06 PM
Thanks everyone but my question was about emperic treatment of close contacts of the child with meningitis. I could not even find this on the CDC website. Could anyone comment? thanks
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