Kansenshogaku Zasshi
Online ISSN : 1884-569X
Print ISSN : 0387-5911
ISSN-L : 0387-5911
A Critical Pneumonia by Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a Chronic Hemodialysis Patient. A case report
Ken MORIIToshio TAKECHIYoichi SHIMIZU
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2002 Volume 76 Issue 12 Pages 1035-1039

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Enterococcus faecium is usually known as a pathogen of nosocomial infections in compromised patients. Recently it is a problem that some of the E. faecium become resistant to many antibiotics. It is not usual that this pathogen causes pneumonia. We report a community-aquired pneumonia by multidrug-resistant E. faecium in an outpatient who had been receiving hemodialysis for the past year. The patient recovered from peumonia with vancomycin, but had nosocomial pneumonia caused by MRSA later but recovered.

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