Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Infections caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans cause significant morbidity and mortality in debilitated individuals. Eradication of these infections requires prolonged therapy with antimicrobial agents and removal of any infected central venous catheter. The outcome is usually poor in patients with...

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Autores principales: Al-Jasser, A M, Al-Anazi, K A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21503249
http://dx.doi.org/10.4176/070617
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description Infections caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans cause significant morbidity and mortality in debilitated individuals. Eradication of these infections requires prolonged therapy with antimicrobial agents and removal of any infected central venous catheter. The outcome is usually poor in patients with high risk malignancy, septic complications, and/or multi-organ dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-30782572011-04-18 Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Al-Jasser, A M Al-Anazi, K A Libyan J Med Case Report Infections caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans cause significant morbidity and mortality in debilitated individuals. Eradication of these infections requires prolonged therapy with antimicrobial agents and removal of any infected central venous catheter. The outcome is usually poor in patients with high risk malignancy, septic complications, and/or multi-organ dysfunction. CoAction Publishing 2007-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3078257/ /pubmed/21503249 http://dx.doi.org/10.4176/070617 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Al-Jasser, A M
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Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title_full Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title_fullStr Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title_full_unstemmed Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title_short Complicated septic shock caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
title_sort complicated septic shock caused by achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21503249
http://dx.doi.org/10.4176/070617
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