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- Title
Successful treatment of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa breakthrough bacteremia with ceftolozane/tazobactam.
- Authors
Hernández-Tejedor, Alberto; Merino-Vega, Carmen; Martín-Vivas, Alfredo; Ruiz de Luna-González, Rafael; Delgado-Iribarren, Alberto; Gabán-Díez, Ángeles; Temprano-Gómez, Ignacio; Calle-Pedrosa, Natalia; González-Jiménez, Ana; Algora-Weber, Alejandro
- Abstract
Introduction: Ceftolozane/tazobactam is a novel antibiotic approved for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal and complicated urinary tract infections. Case description: We describe the use of off-label ceftolozane/tazobactam in the management of a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia that was already being treated with colistin and amikacin, the only active antibiotics according to the antibiogram.
- Subjects
BACTEREMIA treatment; ANTIBIOTICS; CEPHALOSPORINS; COMBINATION drug therapy; DRUG resistance in microorganisms; MEDICAL care; EVALUATION of medical care; MICROBIAL sensitivity tests; PATIENTS; PSEUDOMONAS diseases; URINARY tract infections; TREATMENT effectiveness; COLISTIN; INTRA-abdominal infections; AMIKACIN
- Publication
Infection, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0300-8126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s15010-016-0944-5