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Successful treatment of septic shock due to pan-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii using combined antimicrobial therapy including tigecycline.

par Taccone, Fabio ;Rodriguez Villalobos, Hector ;De Backer, Daniel ;De Moor, V;Devière, Jacques ;Vincent, Jean Louis ;Jacobs, Frédérique
Référence European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases, 25, 4, page (257-260)
Publication Publié, 2006-04

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Reported here is the case of a patient with septic shock due to multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which developed after complicated acute pancreatitis with intra-abdominal abscess. Treatment with colistin methanesulphonate and high doses of meropenem were initiated, but since shock persisted, tigecycline was added to the regimen, resulting in successful resolution of the infection.