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SUBMITTER: Aboderin OA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5644516 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aboderin Oladipo A OA Adefehinti Olufemi O Odetoyin Babatunde W BW Olotu Amadin A AA Okeke Iruka N IN Adeodu Olugbenga O OO
African journal of laboratory medicine 20120604 1
We report on an 8-year-old patient with septicaemia unresponsive to therapy for five weeks. Undetected, extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) production by the infecting <i>Klebsiella</i> strain was regarded as responsible for treatment failure. Intravenously administered imipenem during the sixth week led to sustained resolution of fever. Resource-limited hospitals can incur prohibitive costs from ESBL-producer infections because of diagnostic limitations and consequent treatment failure involvi ...[more]