Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia Caused by Acinetobacter baumannii Successfully Treated with the Initial Administration of Meropenem Based on the Sputum Gram Staining Findings

A 62-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and a two-day history of fever and dyspnea presented at our hospital. He was diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), septic shock, and respiratory failure. Sputum Gram staining revealed Gram-negative coccobacilli. Based on the Gram staining finding...

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Autores principales: Iwasawa, Yurika, Hosokawa, Naoto, Harada, Mariko, Hayano, Satoshi, Shimizu, Akihiko, Suzuki, Daisuke, Nakashima, Kei, Yaegashi, Makito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30210104
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0787-18

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