Recurrent penicillin-resistant pneumococcal sepsis after matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplantation for refractory T cell lymphoma

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1017-1019

  Tauro, S ^a   Dobie, D ^a   Richardson, G ^b   Hastings, M ^a   Mahendra, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Penicillin resistant; Pneumococcal sepsis; Post unrelated transplant

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPICILLIN; BUSULFAN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; GANCICLOVIR; IDARUBICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG CHOICE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; ORGAN DONOR; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

EID: 0033765201     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702647     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Splenic studies. I. Susceptibility to infection after splenectomy performed in infancy
2. Development pattern of splenic dysfunction in sickle cell disorders
3. Severe pheumococcal infection and splenic atrophy occuring as complications of graft-versus-host disease after haplotype mismatched marrow transplants
4. Working Party of British Committee for Standards in Haematology, Haematology Task Force. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with absent or dysfunctional spleen
5. Colonization with antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in children with sickle cell disease
6. Pneumococcal vaccination of recipients of bone marrow transplants
7. Antibody response to pneumococcal vaccine in children receiving bone marrow transplantation
8. Postsplenectomy sepsis and its mortality rate: Actual versus perceived risks
9. Impaired antibody response to pneumococcal vaccine after treatment for Hodgkin's disease
10. Rarity of failure of penicillin prophylaxis to prevent postsplenectomy sepsis
11. Prevalence of antibiotic resistance and serotypes in pneumococci in England and Wales: Results of observational surveys in 1990 and 1995
12. Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: Rational antibiotic choices
13. Efficncy of quinolone prophylaxis in neutropenic cancer patients: A meta-analysis
14. The comparative antimicrobial activity of levofloxacin tested against 350 clinical isolates of streptococci
15. In vitro and in vivo antibacterial bacterial activities of levofloxacin (L-ofloxacin), an optically active ofloxacin
16. Comparative antistreptococcal activity of two newer fluoroquinolones, levofloxacin and sparfloxacin
17. New quinolones and Gram-positive bacteria
18. Emergence of vancomycin tolerance in Streptococcus pneumoniae
19. Overwhelming postisplenectomy infection in a patient with penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
20. The pneumococcal problem
21. Immune response capacity after human splenic autotransplantation: Restoration of response to individual pneumococcal vaccine subtypes
22. Intranasal immunization with pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccines protects mice against invasive pneumococcal infections
23. Fatal post-splenectomy sepsis despite prophylaxis with penicillin and pneumococcal vaccine