TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful treatment of gram-negative bacillary meningitis with imipenem/cilastatin
AU - Rodriguez, Kassandra
AU - Dickinson, Gordon M.
AU - Greenman, Richard L.
PY - 1985/6
Y1 - 1985/6
N2 - A patient with meningitis caused by a strain of Acinetobacter anitratus that was resistant to all commercially available antibiotics was treated with imipenem/cilastatin administered intravenously in a dose of 1 gm of imipenem every six hours. The minimal inhibitory concentration of imipenem against the isolate was ≤0.04 μg/ml. The patient tolerated the drug well and was cured after 12 days of therapy.
AB - A patient with meningitis caused by a strain of Acinetobacter anitratus that was resistant to all commercially available antibiotics was treated with imipenem/cilastatin administered intravenously in a dose of 1 gm of imipenem every six hours. The minimal inhibitory concentration of imipenem against the isolate was ≤0.04 μg/ml. The patient tolerated the drug well and was cured after 12 days of therapy.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-198506000-00028
DO - 10.1097/00007611-198506000-00028
M3 - Article
C2 - 3859018
AN - SCOPUS:0021869468
VL - 78
SP - 731
EP - 732
JO - Southern Medical Journal
JF - Southern Medical Journal
SN - 0038-4348
IS - 6
ER -