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Single-dose cefotaxime intramuscularly cures gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum
P Lepage1, J Bogaerts, P Kestelyn
1Department of Paediatrics, Kigali Hospital, Rwanda.
The British Journal of Ophthalmology
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Nine neonates with culture proved gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum were treated with a single intramuscular injection of 100 mg/kg of cefotaxime without topical antibiotic therapy. Five of the nine strains were penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae. All nine cases were clinically and microbiologically cured, and no side effects were observed.