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  • Title: [Clinical trial of cefmenoxime in children].
    Author: Okada T, Furukawa S.
    Journal: Jpn J Antibiot; 1982 Nov; 35(11):2589-98. PubMed ID: 6302340.
    Abstract:
    Cefmenoxime (CMX) was intravenously administered to 20 children with the following bacterial infection; pneumonia in 14 cases, purulent meningitis in 2 cases, pyothorax in 2 cases, urinary tract infection in 1 case and brain abscess in 1 case. The daily dosage administered in meningitis, pyothorax and brain abscess ranged from 145-311 mg/kg/day, from 43-88 mg/kg/day in other bacterial infections. The therapeutic efficacy was excellent in 15, good in 3, poor in 2 patients, efficacy rate being 90%. Causative organisms were H. influenzae in 4 cases, S. aureus in 2 cases, Streptococcus sanguis in 1 case, E. coli in 1 case and unknown in 12 cases. All were eliminated with the exception of 2 strains of S. aureus after the administration of CMX. As for side effect, transient eosinophilia was only observed in 1 case.
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