TY - JOUR T1 - Neonatal meningitis JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F173 LP - F178 DO - 10.1136/fn.88.3.F173 VL - 88 IS - 3 AU - P T Heath AU - N K Nik Yusoff AU - C J Baker Y1 - 2003/05/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/88/3/F173.abstract N2 - Twelve years ago an annotation was published in Archives of Disease in Childhood regarding the antibiotic treatment of suspected neonatal meningitis. The authors recommended the use of cephalosporins rather than chloramphenicol and advocated intraventricular aminoglycoside treatment in selected cases. They noted the absence of clinical trials with third generation cephalosporins that showed an improvement in mortality or neurological outcome. ER -