LIFE-THREATENING INFECTION WITH MULTIRESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-EPIDERMIDIS IN A PATIENT WITH END-STAGE-RENAL-DISEASE - CURE WITH CHLORAMPHENICOL AND QUINUPRISTIN DALFOPRISTIN TIN (RP-59500)/

Authors
MUNDLEIN E VONBAUM H GEISS HK SPRINGSKLEE M ZEIER M ANDRASSY K
Citation
E. Mundlein et al., LIFE-THREATENING INFECTION WITH MULTIRESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-EPIDERMIDIS IN A PATIENT WITH END-STAGE-RENAL-DISEASE - CURE WITH CHLORAMPHENICOL AND QUINUPRISTIN DALFOPRISTIN TIN (RP-59500)/, Infection, 25(4), 1997, pp. 252-254
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Infection → ACNP
ISSN journal
03008126
Volume
25
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
252 - 254
Database
ISI
SICI code
0300-8126(1997)25:4<252:LIWMS>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A 45-year-old man with end-stage renal disease underwent a cadaveric k idney transplantation. The allograft had to be removed 10 days after t ransplantation because of an acute vascular rejection, After explantat ion, the patient suffered from a life-threatening infection with Staph ylococcus epidermidis involving lungs, eyes and liver for 11 months. D espite adequate therapy including vancomycin followed by teicoplanin, he developed spondylodiscitis requiring repeated surgical intervention s. The definitive cure was achieved. by a sequential therapy with chlo ramphenicol and quinupristin/dalfopristin.