Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Infection in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): A Colonizer or True Infection?

BACKGROUND This article describes a finding of sputum culture positive for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in an elderly woman with past medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension, presenting with acute hypoxemic hypercapnic respiratory failure secondary to COPD ex...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of case reports 2020-06, Vol.21, p.e924577-e924577
Hauptverfasser:	Oladunjoye, Olubunmi O, Oladunjoye, Adeolu O, Oladiran, Oreoluwa, Donato, Anthony A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Diagnosis, Differential Female Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - diagnosis Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - drug therapy Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - microbiology Humans Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - microbiology Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology Stenotrophomonas maltophilia - isolation & purification Treatment Outcome Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination - therapeutic use
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