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* Clinical presentations include bacteremia, prosthetic valve endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis
* Clinical presentations include bacteremia, prosthetic valve endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis
* Essentially universally susceptible to [[vancomycin]] and [[linezolid]]
* Essentially universally susceptible to [[vancomycin]] and [[linezolid]]
* High rates of resistance to beta lactams; may be fluoroquinolone or tetracycline susceptible[[CiteRef::nemuchwala2018in]]
* High rates of resistance to beta lactams; may be fluoroquinolone or tetracycline susceptible<ref name=":0">Neemuchwala A, Soares D, Ravirajan V, Marchand-Austin A, Kus JV, Patel SN. ''In Vitro'' Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Non-diphtheriae Corynebacterium Isolates in Ontario, Canada, from 2011 to 2016. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Mar 27;62(4):e01776-17. doi: [https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01776-17 10.1128/AAC.01776-17]. PMID: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29339389/ 29339389]; PMCID: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc5914010/ PMC5914010].</ref>

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Latest revision as of 17:44, 19 September 2024

  • Species of Corynebacterium that causes opportunistic infections, most closely associated with hematologic stem cell transplant patients
  • Clinical presentations include bacteremia, prosthetic valve endocarditis, meningitis, and peritonitis
  • Essentially universally susceptible to vancomycin and linezolid
  • High rates of resistance to beta lactams; may be fluoroquinolone or tetracycline susceptible1
From 1
Antibiotic Isolates % Susceptible
Penicillin 76 0
Ampicillin 76 ND
Oxacillin 76 ND
Erythromycin 76 11.8
Clindamycin 76 2.6
Ciprofloxacin 75 35.5
Levofloxacin 75 ND
Moxifloxacin 76 35.5
Tetracycline 76 92.1
Vancomycin 76 100
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole 76 18.4
Tigecycline 76 ND
Rifampin 76 97.4
Quinupristin-dalfopristin 76 89.5
Linezolid 76 100
Gentamicin 76 81.6
Daptomycin 75 89.5
Chloramphenicol 75 ND
Nitrofurantoin 76 ND

References

  1. a b nemuchwala2018in