Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection

Hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella infection is posing a significant challenge to physicians all around the world. The spread of multiple antibiotic resistance among various members of bacteria continues to be a significant clinical threat. Antibiotic susceptibility testing is th...

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Autores principales: Yasin, Faizan, Assad, Salman, Talpur, Abdul Subhan, Zahid, Mehr, Malik, Shuja A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28948123
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1503
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author Yasin, Faizan
Assad, Salman
Talpur, Abdul Subhan
Zahid, Mehr
Malik, Shuja A
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description Hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella infection is posing a significant challenge to physicians all around the world. The spread of multiple antibiotic resistance among various members of bacteria continues to be a significant clinical threat. Antibiotic susceptibility testing is the initial step in optimizing the appropriate antibiotic therapy for infections with MDR Klebsiella. We report a case of MDR Klebsiella urinary tract infection (UTI) in a patient following a trimalleolar fracture, which was appropriately treated with a combination of amikacin and meropenem.
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spelling pubmed-56084812017-09-25 Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection Yasin, Faizan Assad, Salman Talpur, Abdul Subhan Zahid, Mehr Malik, Shuja A Cureus Orthopedics Hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella infection is posing a significant challenge to physicians all around the world. The spread of multiple antibiotic resistance among various members of bacteria continues to be a significant clinical threat. Antibiotic susceptibility testing is the initial step in optimizing the appropriate antibiotic therapy for infections with MDR Klebsiella. We report a case of MDR Klebsiella urinary tract infection (UTI) in a patient following a trimalleolar fracture, which was appropriately treated with a combination of amikacin and meropenem. Cureus 2017-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5608481/ /pubmed/28948123 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1503 Text en Copyright © 2017, Yasin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Yasin, Faizan
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Zahid, Mehr
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Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title_full Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title_fullStr Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title_full_unstemmed Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title_short Combination Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infection
title_sort combination therapy for multidrug-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infection
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28948123
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1503
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