Parenteral fluoroquinolones in children with life-threatening infections

Summary The new fluoroquinolones have not been tested in children despite their wide spectrum ofin vitro activity and efficacy, because of an observed damage to cartilage in young animals. However, in some cases they may be life-saving. We present three pediatric patients with life threatening infections in whom the fluoroquinolones were used when other antibiotics failed: A seven-year-old boy with meningitis due to multiresistantAcinetobacter calcoaceticus, a three-year-old boy with Job's syndrome with line sepsis due toStaphylococcus epidermidis and a four month-old boy with agammaglobulinemia with mixed infection due toEscherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, andAcinetobacter spp. All three children were cured of their infections..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1990

Erschienen:

1990

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Infection - 18(1990), 4 vom: Juli, Seite 237-238

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dagan, R. [VerfasserIn]
Schlaeffer, F. [VerfasserIn]
Einhorn, M. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Fluoroquinolones
Meningitis
Pediatric Patient
Pseudomonas
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

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© MMV Medizin Verlag GmbH Müncher 1990

doi:

10.1007/BF01643396

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC2051818185