Sepsis caused by Elizabethkingia miricola successfully treated with tigecycline and levofloxacin.
Elizabethkingia miricola is a Gram-negative rod that was initially isolated from condensation water of the space station Mir. This is the 1st reported case of human disease caused by this organism.
Department of Internal Medicine, New York Hospital Queens/Weill-Cornell Medical College, Flushing, NY 11355, USA.
O'Neil
O
Green
Patrick
P
Murray
Juan C
JC
Gea-Banacloche
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D064704:Levofloxacin; D020522:Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008911:Minocycline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015242:Ofloxacin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D000078304:Tigecycline
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D064704:Levofloxacin; D000078304:Tigecycline; D015242:Ofloxacin; D008911:Minocycline