1. Fulminant septicaemia caused by multi-drug-resistantStreptococcus mitisfollowing unrelated cord blood transplantation
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Cheng-Hsun Chiu, I.-Anne Huang, Shih-Hsiang Chen, Chao-Ping Yang, Tang-Her Jaing, and Ju-Hsin Chia
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medicine.drug_class ,Fulminant ,Antibiotics ,Streptococcus mitis ,Umbilical cord ,Fatal Outcome ,Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial ,Sepsis ,Streptococcal Infections ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Nose ,biology ,business.industry ,beta-Thalassemia ,Transfusion Reaction ,Fetal Blood ,Streptococcaceae ,biology.organism_classification ,Transplantation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Immunology ,Vancomycin ,Female ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Streptococcus mitis (a common and usually harmless bacterium found in the nose, mouth and throat) can have an unusually high level of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics. We report a patient who developed fatal Streptococcus mitis septicaemia following unrelated cord blood transplantation. Administration of vancomycin to patients with recurrent fever during allogeneic stem cell transplantation might be indicated.
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- 2006
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