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Fatal vancomycin- and linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium sepsis in a child undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for beta-thalassaemia major
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Fatal vancomycin- and linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium sepsis in a child undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for beta-thalassaemia major

Marco Fossati, Barbara Cappelli, Erika Biral, Robert Chiesa, Alessandra Biffi, Cristina Ossi, Matteo Moro, Daniela Maria Cirillo, Massimo Clementi, Clara Soliman, …
Journal of medical microbiology, Vol.59(7), pp.839-842
01/07/2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.018598-0
PMID: 20299507

Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Microbiology Science & Technology
Recently vancomycin-resistant and sporadically linezolid-resistant Enterococcus species have been described in adults. We report what we believe to be the first case of a child with prolonged bone marrow aplasia following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation developing a fatal sepsis caused by Enterococcus faecium resistant to glycopeptides and linezolid.

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