Post-traumatic vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms among severe ocular infections is of grave concern. We describe the first reported case of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis following ocular trauma, uniquely caused by Enterococcus gallinarum. The organism demonstrated intrinsic resist...

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Autores principales: Hillier, Roxane J, Arjmand, Parnian, Rebick, Gabriel, Ostrowski, Mario, Muni, Rajeev H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23514354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-3-42
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author Hillier, Roxane J
Arjmand, Parnian
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Ostrowski, Mario
Muni, Rajeev H
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description The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms among severe ocular infections is of grave concern. We describe the first reported case of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis following ocular trauma, uniquely caused by Enterococcus gallinarum. The organism demonstrated intrinsic resistance to ceftazidime and vancomycin but responded favorably to a combination of intravitreal and intravenous ampicillin, plus intravitreal amikacin. When faced with a multidrug-resistant organism, the ophthalmologist must consider alternative antibiotic strategies.
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spelling pubmed-36053982013-03-25 Post-traumatic vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis Hillier, Roxane J Arjmand, Parnian Rebick, Gabriel Ostrowski, Mario Muni, Rajeev H J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect Letter to the Editor The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms among severe ocular infections is of grave concern. We describe the first reported case of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis following ocular trauma, uniquely caused by Enterococcus gallinarum. The organism demonstrated intrinsic resistance to ceftazidime and vancomycin but responded favorably to a combination of intravitreal and intravenous ampicillin, plus intravitreal amikacin. When faced with a multidrug-resistant organism, the ophthalmologist must consider alternative antibiotic strategies. Springer 2013-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3605398/ /pubmed/23514354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-3-42 Text en Copyright ©2013 Hillier et al.; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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