a decline in the incidence of meningitis from 1.27/1000 live births in 1981 and 0.95/1000 for the period 1981-1986 to 0.22/1000 live births in 1987 , with no cases of klebsiella meningitis being seen in that year , coincided with the exclusive use of amikacin as the parenteral aminoglycoside in place of gentamicin in the unit after august 1986 .
C0002556
aminoglycoside
C0017436
gentamicin