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Tigecycline salvage therapy for ventriculoperitoneal shunt meningitis due to extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

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Abbreviations

CSF:

Cerebrospinal fluid

EVD:

External ventricular drainage

MIC:

Minimum inhibitory concentration

XDR:

Extensively drug-resistant

VPS:

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

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  1. Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pamukkale University School of Medicine, Kınıklı, 20070, Denizli, Turkey

    Meltem Polat

  2. Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Health Sciences University Ankara Hematology and Oncology Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Aslinur Ozkaya-Parlakay

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MP: drafting of the manuscript and patient management; AOP: review of literature, critical revision, and approval of final draft of the manuscript

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Polat, M., Ozkaya-Parlakay, A. Tigecycline salvage therapy for ventriculoperitoneal shunt meningitis due to extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Eur J Pediatr 178, 117–118 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-018-3271-2

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