Report of a Case with Polymicrobial Endocarditis Related to Multiresistant Strains
| Autor: | Ayşe Özder, Rustem Olga, Husniye Yuksel, Serdar Kucukoglu, Emine Küçükateş, Bekir Kocazeybek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Aortic valve medicine.medical_specialty medicine.drug_class Staphylococcus medicine.medical_treatment Antibiotics Heart Valve Diseases Corynebacterium Transesophageal echocardiogram Valve replacement Staphylococcus epidermidis Drug Resistance Multiple Bacterial Drug Discovery medicine Humans Endocarditis Pharmacology (medical) Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation Pharmacology medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Bacterial General Medicine Middle Aged Mycotic aneurysm medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Surgery Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology Aortic Valve business Aneurysm Infected |
| Zdroj: | Chemotherapy. 48:316-319 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9794 0009-3157 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000069710 |
| Popis: | We present a patient with polymicrobial endocarditis who had been operated on previously for a mycotic aneurysm and was seen at the cardiology clinic because of palpitations related to effort. A transesophageal echocardiogram revealed a 15-mm vegetation on his aortic valve. Staphylococcus epidermidis and Corynebacterium striatum were isolated from the blood cultures. Both strains were multiresistant (susceptible to 3 antibiotics at most) against chemotherapy in vitro. Microbiological eradication was not achieved from blood cultures even after applying antimicrobial therapy with effective antibiotics as determined with an antibiotic susceptibility test. For this reason, the patient underwent valve replacement. He was discharged from hospital in fairly good health. |
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