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Overwhelming pneumococcal pneumonia in a patient receiving ofloxacin for antimicrobial prophylaxis
H Saito1, M Kajita, K Shimokata
1Department of Medicine, National Chubu Hospital, Obu, Japan.
Japanese Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of severe bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia which developed in a patient with lung cancer, who was taking ofloxacin for chemoprophylaxis, is presented. Pneumonia resolved well with intravenous penicillin G. Infection by and colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae might become a problem with increasing use of the fluoroquinolones.