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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wu, En-Ling
• Al-Heeti, Omar
• Hoff, Brian M
• Williams, Janna L
• Krueger, Karen M
• Santoiemma, Phillip P
• Rhodes, Nathaniel J

Titel

Role of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in the Treatment of Persistent Mycobacterium abscessus Central Nervous System Infection: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Ist Teil von

• Open forum infectious diseases, 2022-08, Vol.9 (8), p.ofac392

Ort / Verlag

United States: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract A patient presenting with recurrent ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection was found to have Mycobacterium abscessus growing from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which remained persistently positive. Therapeutic monitoring of clarithromycin, imipenem, and linezolid in CSF and plasma revealed lower than expected concentrations, prompting alternative therapy and culture clearance on hospital day 42.