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Treatment failure due to emergence of resistance to carbapenem during therapy for Shewanella algae bacteremia
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- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2006-03-07
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Citation
- J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Mar;44(3):1172-4.
- Keywords
- Aged ; Bacteremia/*drug therapy/*microbiology ; Base Sequence ; DNA Primers/genetics ; DNA, Bacterial/genetics/isolation & purification ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/*drug therapy/*microbiology ; Humans ; Imipenem/*therapeutic use ; Male ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Shewanella/*drug effects/genetics/isolation & purification ; Treatment Failure
- Abstract
- We describe a case of bacteremia due to imipenem-susceptible Shewanella algae. Despite treatment with imipenem, the patient developed a spinal epidural abscess, from which imipenem-resistant S. algae was isolated. The development of resistance should be monitored when S. algae infection is treated with imipenem, even though the strain is initially susceptible to imipenem.
- ISSN
- 0095-1137 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16517923
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/11602
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