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SUBMITTER: van den Bruele T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2963732 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 20100617 11
We describe a 15-year-old patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia who developed malabsorption and bacteremia due to infection of Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni. The Campylobacter bacteremia was only recognized after subculturing of blood culture bottles that failed to signal in the automated system. After 2 weeks of treatment with meropenem and erythromycin for 4 weeks, the patient developed a relapse of bacteremia 10 months later with a high level erythromycin resistant C. jejuni ...[more]