TY - JOUR
T1 - Bacterial meningitis: a review of effective pharmacotherapy
AU - Weisfelt, Martijn
AU - de Gans, Jan
AU - van de Beek, Diederik
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Acute bacterial meningitis is a serious and life-threatening neurological infectious disease. Despite the availability of effective antibiotics, supportive care facilities and recent advances in adjunctive strategies, for example, adjunctive dexamethasone, mortality and morbidity rates associated with bacterial meningitis remain unacceptably high. The review presents a brief overview of key clinical and epidemiological aspects of the disease and focuses on advances in pharmacotherapeutic strategies in adult patients with bacterial meningitis in the developed world
AB - Acute bacterial meningitis is a serious and life-threatening neurological infectious disease. Despite the availability of effective antibiotics, supportive care facilities and recent advances in adjunctive strategies, for example, adjunctive dexamethasone, mortality and morbidity rates associated with bacterial meningitis remain unacceptably high. The review presents a brief overview of key clinical and epidemiological aspects of the disease and focuses on advances in pharmacotherapeutic strategies in adult patients with bacterial meningitis in the developed world
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1517/14656566.8.10.1493
DO - https://doi.org/10.1517/14656566.8.10.1493
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17661731
SN - 1465-6566
VL - 8
SP - 1493
EP - 1504
JO - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy
JF - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy
IS - 10
ER -