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. 2022 Aug 20;22:700. doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07680-0

Table 1.

Characteristics of 15 pediatric patients with C. jejuni CNS infection

Case Age/sex Sample Identification method Clinical features Treatment References
1 16 days/male CSF MALDI-TOF Meningitis Ampicillin plus cefotaxime, followed by cefotaxime 2 weeks Guerrero García et al.  [14]
2 15 days/male CSF Culture Meningitis Cefotaxime 3 weeks Tsoni  et al.  [11]
3 30 months/female CSF from subdural space collection Culture Subdural space collection infection Chloramphenicol along with subdural instillation of gentamycin for 4 weeks Richie  et al.  [15]
4 13 days/female No isolate No isolate Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
5 11 days/female No isolate No isolate Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
6 8 days/male Blood Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
7 16 days/female No isolate No isolate Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al. [5]
8 15 days/male No isolate No isolate Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens et al. [5]
9 5 days/female Blood Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens et al. [5]
10 14 days/male No isolate No isolate Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
11 5 days/female Blood Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
12 7 days/male Blood Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
13 7 days/female CSF, blood, stool Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
14 5 days/female CSF, stool Culture Meningitis Ampicillin plus gentamycin 7 days, followed by amoxicillin 2–3 weeks Goossens  et al.  [5]
15 12 days/male CSF Culture Meningitis Chloramphenicol plus gentamycin 7 days Thomas  et al.  [12]

CSF cerebrospinal fluid, MALDI-TOF matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry with time-of-flight detector