Successful Treatment of Carbapenemase-Producing Pandrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteremia.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Oct;59(10):5903-8
Authors: Camargo JF, Simkins J, Beduschi T, Tekin A, Aragon L, Pérez-Cardona A, Prado CE, Morris MI, Abbo LM, Cantón R
Abstract
New antibiotic options are urgently needed for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections. We report a 64-year-old female with prolonged hospitalization following an intestinal transplant who developed refractory bacteremia due to a serine carbapenemase-producing pandrug-resistant isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae. After failing multiple antimicrobial regimens, the patient was successfully treated.
PMID: 26386029 [PubMed - in process]