Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6044469 | World Neurosurgery | 2015 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This study summarizes the prevalence, causative organism of PCNSI, and antibiotic usage for all of the neurosurgical cases over a 13-month period in a modernized yet resource-limited neurosurgical center located in South Asia. The results from this study highlight the PCNSI landscape in an area of the world that is often underreported in the neurosurgical literature because of the paucity of clinical neurosurgical research undertaken there. This study shows an increasing prevalence of gram-negative organisms in CSF cultures from PCNSIs, which supports a trend in the recent literature of increasing gram-negative bacillary meningitis.
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Authors
Swathi Chidambaram, M. Nathan Nair, Shyam Sundar Krishnan, Ling Cai, Weiling Gu, Madabushi Chakravarthy Vasudevan,