Synergistic effect of carbapenem-teicoplanin combination during severe Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in a kidney transplant recipient: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-362

  El Karoui, K ^a,b   Guillet, C ^c   Sekkal, N ^c   Lanternier, F ^a,b   Mechai F ^a,b   Hue, K ^d   Hiesse, C ^c   Mamzer Buneel, M F ^c   Catherinot, E ^e   Viard, J P ^a,b   Mainardi, J L ^f   Lecuit, M ^a,b   Ferroni, A ^c   Lortholary, O ^a,c  

^a Centre d'Infectiologie Necker Pasteur   (France)

^b Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^e FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^f HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiotic combination; Cavitary pneumonia; Imipenem; Kidney transplant; Rhodococcus equi; Teicoplanin

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMIPENEM; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MEROPENEM; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LESION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; UREMIA;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEICOPLANIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68849105712     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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