<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.MY boyfriend went to hospital last tuesday and they gave him several antibiotics for kidney infection and also testing for bacterial meningitus after antibiotics were in system and showed negative. i was concerned if i should be checked. sent him home today and he is still real sick.  <response>: Hi, I went through your query. It depends on the type of infection. If there is an abscess, Chat Doctor. Otherwise, a full course of antibiotics should be sufficient. Test for meningitis is preferably done before starting the antibiotics. But even if the test was done only a few hours after the dose the reports will be quite alright. Kidney infection is not sexually transmitted. But bacterial meningitis can be transmitted through 