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- Title
Gram-negative meningitis and the significance of SPICE organisms.
- Authors
Sidhu, Hargun; Khan, Sarah
- Abstract
A case study of a 6-week-old term female infant born via emergency Caesarean section for fetal bradycardia was admitted to exclude meningitis is presented. Topics include abscess was drained and cultures grew Citrobacter sp as Antibiotics were changed to meropenem; and increasing hydrocephalus, requiring placement of an external ventricular drain, and as well by focal tonic clonic seizures.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; INTRAVENOUS therapy; VANCOMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; STREPTOCOCCAL diseases; BACTERIAL meningitis; TREATMENT effectiveness; ANTIBIOTIC prophylaxis; HEAD; AMPICILLIN; BRADYCARDIA; FETUS
- Publication
Paediatrics & Child Health (1205-7088), 2021, Vol 26, Issue 7, pe275
- ISSN
1205-7088
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/pch/pxab004