Chronisch-kritisch Kranke – Was bedeuten Langlieger für die Intensivmedizin?

Graf, Jürgen; Janssens, Uwe

doi:10.1007/s00508-006-0628-8

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“…The patient we report had several of the known risk factors predisposing for Leuconostoc infection, such as serious underlying diseases including alcoholic liver cirrhosis, pancytopenia and emphysematous lung destruction with pulmonary infection, previous antibiotic therapy, nosocomially acquired catheter-related MRSE bacteremia with subsequent vancomycin therapy, long-term parenteral nutrition, and prolonged hospitalization -the latter being associated with nosocomial infections [20,21].…”

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Catheter-related Leuconostoc bacteremia secondary to pulmonary Mycobacterium xenopi infection

Huber

Rumetshofer

Stradal

et al. 2007

Wien Klin Wochenschr

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Infection caused by Leuconostoc spp. is very rare. We report a case of Leuconostoc bacteremia in a patient receiving antimycobacterial chemotherapy for pulmonary Mycobacterium xenopi infection. In addition, the patient presented several known characteristic predisposing factors associated with Leuconostoc infection, such as severe underlying disease, previous long-term antibiotic treatment, indwelling intravascular catheter, prolonged parenteral feeding, previous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) bacteremia with subsequent vancomycin treatment, and prolonged hospitalization. Leuconostoc spp. were isolated from several blood cultures and from a retracted intravascular catheter. After removal of the intravascular catheter the patient's condition improved without additional antibiotic treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a patient with Leuconostoc spp. infection secondary to pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis.

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confidence: 99%