Successful treatment of lower urinary tract infections with oral fosfomycin: a report of three cases

Infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms continue to increase, and therapeutic options remain scarce. Given this challenge, it has become necessary to use older antimicrobials for treatment of these pathogens. We report three patients with lower urinary tract infections caused by Klebsiella p...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Juliana Oliveira da Silva, Maria Cecilia Zorat Yu, André Doi, Maria Rita Elmor de Araujo, Pedro Aurélio Mathiasi Neto, Guilherme Henrique Campos Furtado
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2015
Subjects:
Fosfomycin
Urinary tract infection treatment
KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0289-2014
https://doaj.org/article/37d487cce4724bde9c566122187fbe9d
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Summary:Infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms continue to increase, and therapeutic options remain scarce. Given this challenge, it has become necessary to use older antimicrobials for treatment of these pathogens. We report three patients with lower urinary tract infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae who were successfully treated with a seven-day course of oral fosfomycin monotherapy.

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