Literature DB >> 3455909

Flavobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in an adult with acute leukemia. Use of rifampin to clear persistent infection.

B E Hirsh, B Wong, T E Kiehn, T Gee, D Armstrong.   

Abstract

A case of Flavobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia complicating the course of a patient with leukemia is described. The patient was treated successfully when rifampin was added to the antibiotic therapy. Unusual organisms should be considered as agents of infection in immunocompromised hosts and susceptibility testing with drugs not commonly employed for gram-negative rods should be performed in complicated cases.

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Year:  1986        PMID: 3455909     DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(86)90058-1

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis        ISSN: 0732-8893            Impact factor:   2.803


  7 in total

1.  Clinical features, antimicrobial susceptibilities, and outcomes of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (Chryseobacterium meningosepticum) bacteremia at a medical center in Taiwan, 1999-2006.

Authors:  M-S Hsu; C-H Liao; Y-T Huang; C-Y Liu; C-J Yang; K-L Kao; P-R Hsueh
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  2011-04-03       Impact factor: 3.267

Review 2.  Bacteremia and fungemia in the immunocompromised patient.

Authors:  T E Kiehn
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1989-09       Impact factor: 3.267

Review 3.  Use of rifampin in nonstaphylococcal, nonmycobacterial disease.

Authors:  A B Morris; R B Brown; M Sands
Journal:  Antimicrob Agents Chemother       Date:  1993-01       Impact factor: 5.191

4.  Antimicrobial susceptibility and epidemiology of a worldwide collection of Chryseobacterium spp: report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (1997-2001).

Authors:  Jeffrey T Kirby; Helio S Sader; Timothy R Walsh; Ronald N Jones
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2004-01       Impact factor: 5.948

5.  Elizabethkingia meningosepticum (Chryseobacterium meningosepticum) Infections in Children.

Authors:  Mehmet Ceyhan; Melda Celik
Journal:  Int J Pediatr       Date:  2011-10-20

6.  Elizabethkingia meningoseptica bacteremia in immunocompromised hosts: The first case series from India.

Authors:  Abdul Ghafur; P R Vidyalakshmi; K Priyadarshini; Jose M Easow; Revathi Raj; T Raja
Journal:  South Asian J Cancer       Date:  2013-10

7.  Bacteremia due to Elizabethkingia meningoseptica.

Authors:  Takashi Shinha; Rakesh Ahuja
Journal:  IDCases       Date:  2015-01-17
  7 in total

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