Vancomycin resistant enterococcus bacteremia in a patient with pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, granulocystic sarcoma and acute respiratory distress syndrome

Autor: Julide Celdir Emre, Aysegul Baysak, Adnan Tolga Oz, Gulfem Ece, Bilgin Arda, Feza Bacakoglu
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 17, Iss 49 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1937-8688
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.17.49.3246
Popis: In this case report we aimed to present a patient with granulocytic sarcomaa, neutropenic fever, ARDS and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumoniae that was hospitalized in our intensive care unit. The patient recovered and then developed vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) bacteremia due to port catheter during follow up. The patient had risk factors for VRE bacteremia and he was administered linezolide without removing the catheter. He was discharged with recovery.
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