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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: the significance and role as a nosocomial pathogen

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 57; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jhin.2004.01.033

1532-2939

Esin Şenol,

Streptococcal Infections and Treatments

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a significant pathogen that primarily affects patients with co-morbid illnesses, usually malignancies, who have been hospitalized for prolonged periods and received broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy. The organism has been associated with an expanding spectrum of clinical manifestations associated with high case to fatality ratios. Therapy of these infections presents a significant challenge both for the clinician and the microbiologists because of its high-level antibiotic resistance to most of the currently used agents and methodological difficulties in susceptibility testing with this organism.