Sepsis caused by Elizabethkingia miricola successfully treated with tigecycline and levofloxacin

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Dec;62(4):430-2. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.015. Epub 2008 Oct 7.

Abstract

Elizabethkingia miricola is a Gram-negative rod that was initially isolated from condensation water of the space station Mir. This is the 1st reported case of human disease caused by this organism.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Gram-Negative Bacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / complications
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / drug therapy*
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Levofloxacin*
  • Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell / complications
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Minocycline / analogs & derivatives*
  • Minocycline / therapeutic use
  • Ofloxacin / therapeutic use*
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / complications
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / microbiology
  • Sepsis / drug therapy*
  • Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects
  • Tigecycline

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Levofloxacin
  • Tigecycline
  • Ofloxacin
  • Minocycline