title: ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van de Beek
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cabellos
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dzupova
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Kloek
authors.affiliation: Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Leib
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mourvillier
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ostergaard
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, "D. Cotugno" Hospital, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pagliano
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Read
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: O Resat
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Sipahi
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: m.c.brouwer@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Brouwer
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections; D006801:Humans; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010358:Patient Participation
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: Antibiotic; ESCMID; Neisseria meningitidis; Streptococcus pneumoniae; bacterial meningitis; guideline