Table 1.
Infection course | Source of isolate | Medical history | Age/sex | Year [reference] |
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Inpatient, febrile with pneumonia; defervesce within 11 days on cefazolin | Sputum | DM, CHF, HTN | 65/F | 1981 [2] |
Inpatient, with scrotal abscess; resolved in 5 days with tetracycline | Scrotal abscess | HTN, CHF, alcoholic hepatitis | 50/M | 1983 [3] |
Inpatient who developed DIC, platelet count recovered on mezlocillin, gentamycin, clindamcin | Blood | Heart disease, bronchitis, COPD | 70/F | 1986 [4] |
Inpatient, febrie, successfully treated with 12 days of cefotaxime, amikacin | Leg ulcer, blood | DM | 67/M | 2008 [5] |
Outpatient, afebrile, successfully treated with 21 days of ciprofloxacin | Oral ulcer | S/P renal transplantation, DM, HTN | 42/M | 2009 [6] |
Inpatient, febrile and pneumonia, successfully treated with ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin piperacillintazobactam | Blood | AML, C. diff colitis | 52/M | 2011 [7] |
Inpatient, febrile wit Chills, vomiting and diarrhea; defervesce within 2 days on Ceftazidim and 12 days of ciprofloxacin | Blood and permacat catheter tip | DM, HTN, chronic renal disease | 77/M | 2012 [current case] |
DM – diabetes mellitus; HTN – hypertension; CHF – congestive heart failure; COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DIC – disseminated intravascular coagulation; AML – acute myeloid leukemia.