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Novel Combination Therapy for Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Necrotizing Pneumonia Complicated by Empyema: A Case Report
We report our clinical and laboratory experience treating a 50-year-old patient who was critically ill with extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii necrotizing pneumonia complicated by empyema in Detroit, Michigan. A precision medicine approach using whole-genome sequencing, susceptibilit...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac092 |
| Sumario: | We report our clinical and laboratory experience treating a 50-year-old patient who was critically ill with extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii necrotizing pneumonia complicated by empyema in Detroit, Michigan. A precision medicine approach using whole-genome sequencing, susceptibility testing, and synergy analysis guided the selection of rational combination antimicrobial therapy. |
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