S. maltophilia pneumonia: A case report

Case report of Community-acquired pneumonia in a male patient without co-morbidities. Empiric antibiotic treatment did not resolve the clinical picture of productive cough, and a chest computerized tomography and sputum culture with antibiogram were performed, identifying S. maltophilia infection wi...

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Autores principales: Geller, Mauro, Nunes, Carlos Pereira, Oliveira, Lisa, Nigri, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29977756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.04.004
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author Geller, Mauro
Nunes, Carlos Pereira
Oliveira, Lisa
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description Case report of Community-acquired pneumonia in a male patient without co-morbidities. Empiric antibiotic treatment did not resolve the clinical picture of productive cough, and a chest computerized tomography and sputum culture with antibiogram were performed, identifying S. maltophilia infection with sensitivity to levofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. Treatment with levofloxacin (500 mg/day for 15 days) resulted in resolution of the clinical picture.
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spelling pubmed-60106092018-07-05 S. maltophilia pneumonia: A case report Geller, Mauro Nunes, Carlos Pereira Oliveira, Lisa Nigri, Rafael Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Case report of Community-acquired pneumonia in a male patient without co-morbidities. Empiric antibiotic treatment did not resolve the clinical picture of productive cough, and a chest computerized tomography and sputum culture with antibiogram were performed, identifying S. maltophilia infection with sensitivity to levofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. Treatment with levofloxacin (500 mg/day for 15 days) resulted in resolution of the clinical picture. Elsevier 2018-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6010609/ /pubmed/29977756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.04.004 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_fullStr S. maltophilia pneumonia: A case report
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title_short S. maltophilia pneumonia: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29977756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.04.004
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