ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis.

D. van de Beek, C. Cabellos, O. Dzupova, S. Esposito, M. Klein, A. T. Kloek, S. L. Leib, B. Mourvillier, C. Ostergaard, P. Pagliano, H. W. Pfister, R. C. Read, O. Resat Sipahi and M. C. Brouwer, for the ESCMID Study Group for Infections of the Brain (ESGIB) 1) Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2) Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, 3) Department of Infectious Diseases, Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 4) Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 5) Department of Neurology, Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany, 6) Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 7) Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France, 8) Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark, 9) Department of Infectious Diseases, “D. Cotugno” Hospital, Naples, Italy, 10) Department of Infectious Diseases, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom and 11) Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey