Non-active antibiotic and bacteriophage synergism to successfully treat recurrent urinary tract infection caused by extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Emerg Microbes Infect
; 9(1): 771-774, 2020 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
We report a case of a 63-year-old female patient who developed a recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) with extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (ERKp). In the initial two rounds of phage therapy, phage resistant mutants developed within days. Although ERKp strains were completely resistant to sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, the combination of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim with the phage cocktail inhibited the emergence of phage resistant mutant in vitro, and the UTI of patient was successfully cured by this combination. Thus, we propose that non-active antibiotic and bacteriophage synergism (NABS) might be an alternative strategy in personalized phage therapy.
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Assunto principal:
Infecções Urinárias
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Infecções por Klebsiella
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Farmacorresistência Bacteriana Múltipla
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Terapia por Fagos
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Antibacterianos
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
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En
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Emerg Microbes Infect
Ano de publicação:
2020
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