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Long Term Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Airway Infection in Mice
Published on: March 17, 2014
Disseminated Pseudomonas aeruginosa and necrotizing pneumonia with complete recovery
P D Kumar1, K Ravakhah, B C West
1Department of Medicine, Huron Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio 44112, USA.
Abstract:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and recovery with treatment are rare in healthy individuals. We report the case of a 59-year-old man with P aeruginosa skin infection and sepsis, later giving rise to necrotizing pneumonia by hematogenous spread. He responded to prolonged intensive care and 3 weeks of piperacillin-tazobactam and tobramycin therapy. There was no evidence of immunosuppression other than that caused by alcoholism in this unusual case. The resulting cavity healed completely by fibrosis in 1 year.
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