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. 1985 Jul;28(1):138–140. doi: 10.1128/aac.28.1.138

Cefotaxime diffusion into cerebrospinal fluid of children with meningitis.

B I Asmar, M C Thirumoorthi, J A Buckley, D M Kobos, A S Dajani
PMCID: PMC176325  PMID: 4037772

Abstract

Cefotaxime diffused consistently and in therapeutic levels into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 13 children successfully treated for bacterial meningitis. CSF cefotaxime levels early (6.0 micrograms/ml) and late (1.2 micrograms/ml) in treatment were severalfold the MBCs for the infecting organisms. After a single 40-mg/kg dose to each of five infants with ventriculostomies, mean CSF levels of cefotaxime were 6.4, 5.7, and 4.5 micrograms/ml at 2, 4, and 6 h, respectively.

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