Comparison of antibiotic and acyclovir usage before and after the implementation of an on-site FilmArray meningitis/encephalitis panel in an academic tertiary pediatric hospital: a retrospective observational study

BACKGROUND: Prompt initiation of empiric therapy is common practice in case of suspected meningitis or encephalitis. However, in children the most common pathogens are viruses that usually do not require and are not covered by the applied anti-infective treatment. Novel multiplex PCR (mPCR) panels p...

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Autores principales: Hagen, Alexandra, Eichinger, Anna, Meyer-Buehn, Melanie, Schober, Tilmann, Huebner, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32020860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1944-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32020860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1944-2

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