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Septicemia caused by vancomycin-resistant Pediococcus acidilactici.

Journal of clinical microbiology ·Vol. 28 ·No. 7 ·1990-07-00 ·Pages 1678-9

Golledge CL, Stingemore N, Aravena M, Joske D

Abstract

A case of septicemia caused by vancomycin-resistant Pediococcus acidilactici is discussed. This appears to be the first reported case of septicemia caused by this organism. The characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibilities of this organism are described.

MeSH Terms
Bacterial Infections/etiology Bacteriological Techniques Drug Resistance, Microbial Humans Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/complications Male Middle Aged Pediococcus/drug effects,isolation & purification Sepsis/etiology Vancomycin/pharmacology
Chemicals
Vancomycin
Authors & Affiliations
4 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Golledge C L
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia.
Stingemore N
Aravena M
Joske D
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Abbr.
J Clin Microbiol
ISSN
0095-1137
DOI
10.1128/jcm.28.7.1678-1679.1990
Published
1990-07-00
Pages
1678-9
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505564
PMCID
PMC268018
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/jcm.28.7.1678-1679.1990 PMC Full Text View journal details
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