TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatal Staphylococcus epidermidis sepsis following bone marrow transplantation
AU - Bender, J. W.
AU - Hughes, W. T.
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - Staphylococcus epidermidis septicemia and pneumonia developed in an 18-year-old male undergoing bone marrow transplantation. The organism was isolated from multiple blood cultures, sputum cultures, and indwelling catheter tip and post-mortem lung biopsy specimens. The bacterium was resistant to penicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, chloramphenicol, vancomycin, gentamicin, cephalothin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole but was sensitive to rifampin. The rapid demise of this patient, as well as the dfficulty in achieving effective antibiotic therapy, illustrates the potential pathogenicity of this organism in immunosuppressed patients.
AB - Staphylococcus epidermidis septicemia and pneumonia developed in an 18-year-old male undergoing bone marrow transplantation. The organism was isolated from multiple blood cultures, sputum cultures, and indwelling catheter tip and post-mortem lung biopsy specimens. The bacterium was resistant to penicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, chloramphenicol, vancomycin, gentamicin, cephalothin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole but was sensitive to rifampin. The rapid demise of this patient, as well as the dfficulty in achieving effective antibiotic therapy, illustrates the potential pathogenicity of this organism in immunosuppressed patients.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 6986499
AN - SCOPUS:0018843236
SN - 0021-7263
VL - 146
SP - 13
EP - 15
JO - Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
JF - Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
IS - 1
ER -