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Hello,
Can any one help me?
How do you treat the close contacts of a child with meningitis? (considering children, adults, vaccinated, unvaccinated)
Thanx
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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
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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
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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