Newer antibiotics: their place in geriatric care. Part i
Gleckman, R.A.; Bergman, M.M.
Geriatrics 41(12): 51-55
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-867X PMID: 3465671 Document Number: 267637
The third-generation cephalosporins offer considerable appeal for treatment of specific life-threatening infections (nosocomial pneumonia, meningitis, urosepsis) in elderly patients when the disorders are caused by aerobic gram-negative bacilli. Despite the frequent presence of cross-reactive antibodies in the sera of recipients of cephalosporins, clinically evident serious reactions to cephalosporins occur infrequently in patients with known penicillin allergy.