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See Latest ArticlesLife-threatening infection caused by daptomycin-resistant Corynebacterium jeikeium in a neutropenic patient
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 05/15/09
Schoen C et al. - Daptomycin is a novel lipopeptide antibiotic agent approved for the treatment of gram-positive life-threatening infections. Here the authors report, for the first time, the isolation of a highly daptomycin-resistant strain of Corynebacterium jeikeium causing a life-threatening infection in a neutropenic patient undergoing cord blood transplantation for secondary acute myeloid leukemia.
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