Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus hepatic abscess treated with tigecycline.
Pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon in clinical practice and are usually polymicrobial in nature, with members of the Enterobacteriacae family often implicated. This report describes the use of tigecycline to treat a liver abscess caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which was refractory to therapy with standard antimicrobials.
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Department of Microbiology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK. niti12@hotmail.com
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D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D008875:Middle Aged; D008911:Minocycline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects*; D000078304:Tigecycline; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000078304:Tigecycline; D008911:Minocycline