ArticlePaediatrics & child health2014
Guidelines for the management of suspected and confirmed bacterial meningitis in Canadian children older than one month of age.
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- The Role of Fundoscopy Before Lumbar Puncture in Children with Suspected Meningitis.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Dynamic analysis of pathogenic distribution and drug resistance mechanism in neonatal suppurative meningitis: a retrospective study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Etiology of community-acquired bacterial meningitis in children at a tertiary-care centre in Montreal, Canada.Paediatrics & child health · 2025Article
- Pediatric bacterial meningitis in southern China: analysis of 838 cases.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial use among paediatric inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2017/2018.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Article
- Clinical Features and Outcomes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis in Children: A Retrospective Analysis of 26 Cases in China.Neuropediatrics · 2022Article
- Early-adolescent antibiotic exposure results in mitochondrial and behavioral deficits in adult male mice.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Bacterial Meningitis in Children: Neurological Complications, Associated Risk Factors, and Prevention.Microorganisms · 2021Review
- Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors among Children Hospitalized with Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Eastern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Patient related outcome measures · 2020Article
- Predictive value of repeated cerebrospinal fluid parameters in the outcomes of bacterial meningitis in infants <90 days of age.PloS one · 2020Article
- Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray meningitis/encephalitis panel for the detection of bacteria and yeast in Chinese children.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- What is new from the Canadian Paediatric Society Committee on Infectious Diseases and Immunization?The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2014Article
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Abstract
The incidence of bacterial meningitis in infants and children has decreased since the routine use of conjugated vaccines targeting Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis. However, this infection continues to be associated with considerable mortality and morbidity if not treated effectively with empirical antimicrobial therapy. Diagnosis still rests on clinical signs and symptoms, and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. This position statement outlines the rationale for current recommended empirical therapy using a third-generation cephalosporin and vancomycin for suspected bacterial meningitis. It also provides new recommendations for the use of adjuvant corticosteroids in this setting. Once antibiotic susceptibilities of the pathogen are known, antimicrobials should be reviewed and modified accordingly. Recommendations for treatment duration as well as audiology testing are included. The present statement replaces a previous Canadian Paediatric Society position statement on bacterial meningitis published in 2007 and revised in 2008.
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