A soldier with traumatic brain injury and meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Kortepeter, Mark G ^a   Lemmon, Julie W ^a   Moran, Kimberly A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; POLYMYXIN B; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIECTOMY; EXPLOSION; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MILITARY PERSONNEL;

EID: 28044434859     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497598     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Scott PT, Petersen K, Fishbain J, et al. Acinetobacter baumannii infections among patients at military medical facilities treating injured U.S. service members, 2002-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2004; 53:1063-6.
2. Petersen K. Acinetobacter, drug resistant-Iraq: request for information. E-mail to Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases mailing list (ProMED-mail), 17 April 2003. Archive no. 20030417.0934. Available at: www.promedmail.org. Accessed 19 November 2004.
3. Ewell A, Riddell S, Snow K, et al. Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter infections associated with battlefield injuries sustained in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) [abstract L-994] In: Program and abstracts of the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (Washington, DC). Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2004:391.
4. Lee S, Kim NJ, Choi S, et al. Risk factors for acquisition of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: a case-control study. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004; 48:224-8.
5. Schreckenberger PC, Daneshvar MI, Weyant RS, Hollis DG. Acinetobacter, Achromobacter, Chryseobacterium, Moraxella, and other non-fermentative gram-negative rods. In: Murray PR, ed. Manual of clinical microbiology. 8th ed. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2003:750-1.
6. Koneman EW, Allen SD, Janda WM, Schreckenberger PC, Winn WC. Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1997.
7. Harrington BJ. Letter to the editor. Clin Microbiol Newsletter 1997; 19:191.
8. Bernabeu-Wittel M, García-Curiel A, Pichardo C, Pachón-Ibáñez ME, Jiménez-Mejías ME, Pachón J. Morphological changes induced by imipenem and meropenem at sub-inhibitory concentrations in Acinetobacter baumannii. Clin Microbiol Infect 2004; 10:931.
9. Jain R, Danziger LH. Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter infections: an emerging challenge to clinicians. Ann Pharmacother 2004; 38:1449-59.
10. Benifla M, Zucker G, Cohen A, Alkan M. Successful treatment of Acinetobacter meningitis with intrathecal polymyxin E. J Antimicrob Chemother 2004; 54:290-2.