Vancomycin Treatment for Enterococcal Meningitis
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 42 (7) , 686-688
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1985.04060070076020
Abstract
• Although clinical disease due to enterococcus is common, there has been only limited experience in the treatment of central nervous system infections by this pathogen. In particular, there have been few reports regarding the treatment of such infections in the penicillin-allergic individual. We present two cases of meningitis due to enterococci, including one case with a brain abscess, in patients with strong histories of penicillin sensitivity. We treated these patients with vancomycin hydrochloride and an aminoglycoside. Vancomycin with an aminoglycoside seems to be a reasonable treatment for enterococcal central nervous system infections.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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