Abstract

LOPEZ TORRES, Orlando; MONTALVAN GONZALEZ, Guillermo; MARTINEZ LOPEZ, José Abel  and  MOREJON LLANES, Luis O. Meningoencephalitis to Salmonella: Presentation of cases. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2009, vol.31, n.4. ISSN 1684-1824.

We present three inpatients with the diagnosis of meningoencephalitis to Salmonella (Non-typhi D in two and C2 in one) attended in the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital from 1989 to 2006. The evolution of the patients infected with the kind non-typhi D was more severe; one of the patients presented osteomyelitis of the lower third of the humerus to the same germen after a 14-days treatment with cefotaxime, and other had a relapse of the meningoencephalitis after 21 days of treatment with cefotaxime and ampicillin. Like other authors, we observed a more aggressive evolution of the infection in these patients in comparison with other bacterial meningoencephalitis, and recommend the treatment with third generation cephalosporin alone at least during 4 weeks or in association with ciprofloxacin.

Keywords : MENINGOENCEPHALITIS [diagnosis]; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS [complications]; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS [drug therapy]; CIPROFLOXACIN [administration & dosage ]; CIPROFLOXACIN [therapeutic use ]; HUMANS; CHILD.

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