Penicillin Use in Meningococcal Disease Management: Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Sites, 2009

In 2009, in the Active Bacterial Core surveillance sites, penicillin was not commonly used to treat meningococcal disease. This is likely because of inconsistent availability of antimicrobial susceptibility testing and ease of use of third-generation cephalosporins. Consideration of current practice...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Blain, Amy E., Mandal, Sema, Wu, Henry, MacNeil, Jessica R., Harrison, Lee H., Farley, Monica M., Lynfield, Ruth, Miller, Lisa, Nichols, Megin, Petit, Sue, Reingold, Arthur, Schaffner, William, Thomas, Ann, Zansky, Shelley M., Anderson, Raydel, Harcourt, Brian H., Mayer, Leonard W., Clark, Thomas A., Cohn, Amanda C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047430/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27704009
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw152
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