Bacteremic pneumonia caused by extensively drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens the successful treatment of pneumococcal infections. Here we report a case of bacteremic pneumonia caused by an extremely drug-resistant strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae, nonsusceptible to at least one agent in all classes but vancomycin and linezolid, posing an important new public health threat in our region.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. collacin@hotmail.com
Cheol-In
CI
Kang
Jin Yang
JY
Baek
Kyeongman
K
Jeon
So Hyun
SH
Kim
Doo Ryeon
DR
Chung
Kyong Ran
KR
Peck
Nam Yong
NY
Lee
Jae-Hoon
JH
Song
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D046915:Penicillin-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D046915:Penicillin-Binding Proteins