Successful treatment of multiresistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a child with acute myeloid leukemia

Achromobacter xylosoxidans is an aerobic gram-negative bacillus and important cause of bacteremia in immunocompromised patients. We describe a leukemia pediatric patient with severe neutropenia who developed bacteremia with A xylosoxidans resistant to multiple antibiotics, and treated the patient wi...

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Autores principales: Tugcu, Deniz, Turel, Ozden, Aydogan, Gonul, Akcay, Arzu, Salcioglu, Zafer, Akici, Ferhan, Sen, Hulya, Demirkaya, Metin, Taskin, Necati, Gurler, Nezahat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26336026
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2015.168
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Sumario:Achromobacter xylosoxidans is an aerobic gram-negative bacillus and important cause of bacteremia in immunocompromised patients. We describe a leukemia pediatric patient with severe neutropenia who developed bacteremia with A xylosoxidans resistant to multiple antibiotics, and treated the patient with tigecycline and piperacillin-tazobactam in addition to supportive medications.

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