Cerebrospinal Fluid Penetration of Amikacin
Open Access
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 13 (6) , 1042-1043
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.13.6.1042
Abstract
Adult volunteers underwent a single lumbar puncture 1 to 8.5 h after one 7.5-mg/kg intramuscular amikacin injection. Eighteen showed no detectable drug in cerebrospinal fluid; six had concentrations <0.5 μg/ml.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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