Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium meningitis successfully managed with linezolid: Case report and review of the literature

Citation
C. Zeana et al., Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium meningitis successfully managed with linezolid: Case report and review of the literature, CLIN INF D, 33(4), 2001, pp. 477-482
Citations number
23
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Review
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Immunology
Journal title
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
1058-4838 → ACNP
Volume
33
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
477 - 482
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(20010815)33:4<477:VEFMSM>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Enterococci cause serious illness in immunocompromised patients and severel y ill, hospitalized patients. Resistance to vancomycin has increased in fre quency during the past few years. Limited therapeutic options are available for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections and the optimum therapy h as not been established. We report a case of nosocomial vancomycin-resistan t Enterococcus faecium meningitis in the setting of hyperinfection with Str ongyloides stercoralis that was successfully treated with linezolid. We als o review the previously reported cases of vancomycin-resistant E. faecium m eningitis.