Enterococcal infections.
An 8-year-old male suffered multiple trauma in a motor vehicle accident. He has been in intensive care and has multiple intravascular catheters and an indwelling Foley catheter. He has received 6 days of a third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic. On day 7, he develops a spiking temperature but no other evidence of infection. However, both of the two blood cultures and a urine culture grow out enterococcus.
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D002648:Child; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000145:classification; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma