Advances in treatment of bacterial meningitis.
Bacterial meningitis kills or maims about a fifth of people with the disease. Early antibiotic treatment improves outcomes, but the effectiveness of widely available antibiotics is threatened by global emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. New antibiotics, such as fluoroquinolones, could have a...
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Format: | Journal article |
Sprache: | English |
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2012
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