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Intravenous Tigecycline Facilitates Cure of Severe Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) After Failure of Standard Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review of Tigecycline Use in CDI
Standard treatment for severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is oral vancomycin with metronidazole. After failure of this standard regimen, treatment becomes challenging. A young woman treated for septic shock developed CDI. Standard treatment failed and she was ineligible for fecal transplan...
Autores principales: | Navalkele, Bhagyashri D., Lerner, Stephen A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27419166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw094 |
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