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Vancomycin-resistant Corynebacterium species causing prosthetic valve endocarditis successfully treated with imipenem
S Barnass1, K Holland, S Tabaqchali
1Department of Medical Microbiology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Endocarditis caused by a Corynebacterium sp. resistant to vancomycin, penicillin G, erythromycin, gentamicin and rifampicin arose in a 44-year-old woman 4 months after replacement of the mitral valve with a prosthesis. She was successfully treated with a 79-day course of intravenous imipenem and ciprofloxacin and replacement of the prosthesis 48 days after treatment began.