Antibiotic Class and Outcome in Post-stroke Infections: An Individual Participant Data Pooled Analysis of VISTA-Acute

Antibiotic Class and Outcome in Post-stroke Infections: An Individual Participant Data Pooled Analysis of VISTA-Acute

Introduction: Antibiotics used to treat post-stroke infections have differing antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects. Our aim was to investigate whether antibiotic class was associated with outcome after post-stroke infection.Methods: We analyzed pooled individual participant data from the Virt...

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Main Authors: Craig J. Smith, Calvin Heal, Andy Vail, Adam R. Jeans, Willeke F. Westendorp, Paul J. Nederkoorn, Diederik van de Beek, Lalit Kalra, Joan Montaner, Mark Woodhead, Andreas Meisel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
stroke
acute
post-stroke infections
post-stroke pneumonia
antibiotics
prognosis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00504/full

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