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.
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O'Neil
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Department of Internal Medicine, New York Hospital Queens/Weill-Cornell Medical College, Flushing, NY 11355, USA.
Murray
Patrick
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Gea-Banacloche
Juan C
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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