Preventive antibacterial therapy in acute ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

Preventive antibacterial therapy in acute ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is a major risk factor of death after acute stroke. In a mouse model, preventive antibacterial therapy with moxifloxacin not only prevents the development of post-stroke infections, it also reduces mortality, and improves neurological outcome significantly. In this study we inv...

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Main Authors: Hendrik Harms, Konstantin Prass, Christian Meisel, Juliane Klehmet, Witold Rogge, Christoph Drenckhahn, Jos Göhler, Stefan Bereswill, Ulf Göbel, Klaus Dieter Wernecke, Tilo Wolf, Guy Arnold, Elke Halle, Hans-Dieter Volk, Ulrich Dirnagl, Andreas Meisel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2373885?pdf=render

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