Successful Treatment of Meningitis Due to Multiply Resistant Enterococcus faecium with a Combination of Intrathecal Teicoplanin and Intravenous Antimicrobial Agents
Losonsky, Genevieve A.; Wolf, Aizik; Schwalbe, Richard S.; Nataro, James; Gibson, Carolyn B.; Lewis, Eric W.; From the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Tropical Pediatrics (Department of Pediatrics), the Departments of Neurosurgery and Pathology, and the Divisions of Infections Diseases (Department of Medicine), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Marion Merrell Dow, Inc., Anti-Infective Clinical Research Group, Kansas City, Missouri
Журнал:
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Дата:
1994
Аннотация:
Following neurosurgery necessitated by intractable seizures, Enterococcus faecium meningitis that was resistant to ampicillin, a high-level aminoglycoside (MIC, >2,000 µg/mL), and vancomycin developed in a 6-year-old boy. Treatment with intrathecal teicoplanin in combination with intravenous clindamycin, rifampin, and ampicillin was successful. The role of intravenous and intrathecal antibiotics in treatment of this infection is discussed. This case is illustrative of the safety and potential usefulness of intrathecally administered teicoplanin.
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