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Failure of Ceftriaxone in an Intravenous Drug User with Invasive Infection Due to Ralstonia pickettii
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- : We report a case of septic arthritis due to Ralstonia pickettii in an intravenous drug user with unfavorable clinical course under antibiotic therapy with ceftriaxone despite in vitro susceptibility to the drug. The treatment failure may have been due to a discrepancy between in vitro and in vivo susceptibility of R. pickettii, or to resistance development mediated by a recently described inducible ß-lactamase
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Notes :
- English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1156704765
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource