GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL

ANTIBIOTIC RECOMMENDATIONS

1999

Table of Contents

• awareness of cost
• dose
• duration of therapy
• antibiotic levels

• penicillins
• cephalosporins
• quinolones
• aminoglycosides

• vancomycin/teicoplanin
• metronidazole
• antifungal agents
• antiviral agents

• septicaemia
• endocarditis
• respiratory tract infections
• tuberculosis
• nocardia
• pneumocystis
• CNS infections
• urinary tract infections
• obstetric and gynaecological infections
• sexually transmitted diseases
• peritonitis
• gastrointestinal infections

• helminthic infestations
• soft tissue infections
• burns
• orthopaedics infections
• eye infections
• fungal infections
• malaria
• toxoplasmosis
• brucellosis
• SA tick bite fever
• opportunistic infections in AIDS patients

• surgical
• endocarditis
• meningococcal meningitis

• pneumocystis pneumonia
• malaria

compiled by

Dr Stephen Oliver (MMed.Path. Microbiol. – UCT)
Dr Denise Roditi (MMed.Path. Microbiol. – UCT)
Prof. Gary Maartens (MMed. – UCT; FCP(SA); DTM&H)

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