title: Burkholderia cepacia septicemia in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia in postchemotherapy bone marrow aplasia.
abstract: The patients with hematologic malignancies are predisposed to develop infections with unusual bacteria, like Burkholderia cepacia, which is frequently resistant to many antibiotics and antiseptics. We present the case of a female patient with acute myeloid leukemia type 2 on the background of myelodysplastic syndrome, from whom Burkholderia cepacia was isolated in blood culture, after the 2(nd) cycle of induction. She was sensitive to ceftazidime, but its eradication was not easy. Five other patients were contaminated with this bacteria, but all of them had favourable evolution. The case is discussed in the context of those similar in literature.
authors.affiliation: Romeo-Gabriel Mihaila, MD, PhD, University of Sibiu, Faculty of Medicine, Str Lucian Blaga, nr 2A, Sibiu, 550169 Sibiu, Romania.
authors.forename: Romeo-Gabriel
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Mihaila
authors.affiliation: Lucian Blaga, University of Sibiu, Faculty of Medicine, Str Lucian Blaga, nr 2A, Sibiu, 550169 Sibiu, Romania.
authors.forename: Lucian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blaga
keywords: Acute myeloid leukemia; Burkholderia cepacia; Ceftazidime; Cotrimoxazole