Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium meningitis in adults: Case series and review of the literature

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-139

  Knoll, Bettina M ^a   Hellmann, Matt ^b   Kotton, Camille N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUDARABINE; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; MYALGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM MENINGITIS;

ACETAMIDES; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DAPTOMYCIN; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OXAZOLIDINONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 84872355615     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2012.717711     Document Type: Review

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