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7373378

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
In the process of trying to decrease infection rates, gentamicin has been used to irrigate shunt systems at the time of surgery. The infection rate did not change, but the epidemiology of infecting organisms changed from Staphylococcus epidermidis to diphtheroids. These indolent and sometimes asymptomatic infections can progress to cause systemic disease with nephritis, peritonitis, or blocked shunts, and are difficult to detect. Laboratory values of cerebrospinal fluid and blood may not be helpful, but prolonged culture incubation on anaerobic media will subsequently yield the organism. Systemic and intraventricular antibiotics may rid the system of diphtheroids and avoid morbidity of shunt revision if the infection is found before systemic disease occurs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-3085
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
553-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Diphtheroid infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts. The changing pattern of shunt infection in Cleveland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article