PEDIATRICS Vol. 26 No. 3 September 1960, pp. 498-499
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Combinations of Antibiotics

Ernest Jawetz M.D.1

1 San Francisco, Calif.

I read with interest the paper by Haggerty and Ziai (Pediatrics, 25:742, 1960). I fully agree with the authors' recommendation that acute bacterial meningitis of infants be treated with multiple drugs directed at the most likely etiologic agents until a specific single organism has been identified. However, the authors' repeated references to some of my past publications force me to call attention to some possibly misleading statements in their paper.

After the initial demonstration of "antibiotic antagonism" in vitro and in experimental animals, we pointed out repeatedly (Arch. Int. Med., 90:301, 1952; Pharmacol.