Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an important cause of hospital acquired infection particularly among severely debilitated and immunosuppressed patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of S. maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy after a neurosurgical procedure, successfully...

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Autores principales: Rojas, Pilar, Garcia, Elisa, Calderón, Gema M, Ferreira, Fernando, Rosso, Marisa
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830198
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7389
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author Rojas, Pilar
Garcia, Elisa
Calderón, Gema M
Ferreira, Fernando
Rosso, Marisa
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Garcia, Elisa
Calderón, Gema M
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description INTRODUCTION: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an important cause of hospital acquired infection particularly among severely debilitated and immunosuppressed patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of S. maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy after a neurosurgical procedure, successfully treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin. CONCLUSION: This organism should be considered as a potential cause of meningitis and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin are a combination that is successful and safe for treating preterm infants.
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spelling pubmed-27377742009-10-14 Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report Rojas, Pilar Garcia, Elisa Calderón, Gema M Ferreira, Fernando Rosso, Marisa J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an important cause of hospital acquired infection particularly among severely debilitated and immunosuppressed patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of S. maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy after a neurosurgical procedure, successfully treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin. CONCLUSION: This organism should be considered as a potential cause of meningitis and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ciprofloxacin are a combination that is successful and safe for treating preterm infants. BioMed Central 2009-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2737774/ /pubmed/19830198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7389 Text en Copyright ©2009 Rojas et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rojas, Pilar
Garcia, Elisa
Calderón, Gema M
Ferreira, Fernando
Rosso, Marisa
Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title_full Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title_fullStr Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title_short Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
title_sort successful treatment of stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830198
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7389
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