Life-Threatening Infection Caused by Daptomycin-Resistant Corynebacterium jeikeium in a Neutropenic Patient
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 47 (7), 2328-2331
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00457-09
Abstract
Daptomycin is a novel lipopeptide antibiotic agent approved for the treatment of gram-positive life-threatening infections. Here we report, for the first time, the isolation of a highly daptomycin-resistant strain of Corynebacterium jeikeium causing a life-threatening infection in a neutropenic patient undergoing cord blood transplantation for secondary acute myeloid leukemia.Keywords
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