Emergence and long-lasting persistence of linezolid-resistant enterococcus faecium-ST117 in an oncohematologic patient after a nine-day course of linezolid

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-21

  Sánchez Díaz, Ana María ^a   Cuartero, Claudio ^a   Lozano, Sara ^a   Rodríguez, Juan Diego ^a   Alonso, Juan Manuel ^a   Quiles Melero, Inmaculada ^b   López, Javier ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a,c   Ruiz Garbajosa, Patricia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IDARUBICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 23S; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLONE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ACETAMIDES; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; OXAZOLIDINONES; POINT MUTATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

EID: 84893734918     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0034     Document Type: Article

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