Role of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in the Treatment of Persistent Mycobacterium abscessus Central Nervous System Infection: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Open Forum Infect Dis
; 9(8): ofac392, 2022 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
A patient presenting with recurrent ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection was found to have Mycobacterium abscessus growing from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which remained persistently positive. Therapeutic monitoring of clarithromycin, imipenem, and linezolid in CSF and plasma revealed lower than expected concentrations, prompting alternative therapy and culture clearance on hospital day 42.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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En
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Open Forum Infect Dis
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos