Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium pneumonia in a uremic patient on hemodialysis: a case report and review of the literature

Li, Fengqin; Wang, Yonglan; Sun, Linlin; Wang, Xiaoxia

doi:10.1186/s12879-020-4892-4

Table 1 Summary of identified cases of Enterococcus pleuro-pulmonary infections

From: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium pneumonia in a uremic patient on hemodialysis: a case report and review of the literature

Age (y) /Sex [Ref]	Co-morbidities	Community versus nosocomial	Pleuro-pulmonary infection	Positive cultures: Specimen/isolates	Resistance to	Antibiotic therapy	Outcome
39/female [9]	None	Community	Pneumonia	Sputum/Enterococcus + Escherichia coli	Streptomy-cin	Aeromycin (Chlortetra-cycline) + Streptomy-cin	Alive
54/male [10]	None	Community	lung abscess	Sputum/Enterococcus	None	Penicillin+Streptomycin	Alive
46/female [10]	PVD and CVD	Community	lung abscess	TBA/Enterococcus	Penicillin	Ampicillin+Gentamicin	Alive
NA [11]	NA	NA	Pneumonia	Sputum/Enterococcus	NA	NA	NA
85/male [12]	CVD	Nosocomial	Pneumonia	TTA/Enterococcus	Penicillin	Ampicillin	Died
54/male [12]	Hyponatremia	Nosocomial	Pneumonia	TTA/Enterococcus	Penicillin	Ampicillin	Alive
52/male [13]	NA	Nosocomial	Empyema	Pleural fluid/ Enterococcus	NA	NA	Alive
NA [14]	NA	Nosocomial	Pneumonia	Lung tissue / Enterococcus	NA	NA	NA
68/male [15]	None	Community	Pneumonia	PTA/Enterococcus faecium	Penicillin Ampicillin Tobramycin	Ciprofloxacin	Alive
NA [5] (4 patients)	NA	Both	PneumoniaEmpyema	Sputum, BAL, PSB and pleura fluid / Enterococcus	NA	NA	NA
78/NA [16]	A.Fib, CVA and CAD	Nosocomial	PneumoniaEmpyema	NA/ Enterococcus	NA	amoxicillin/clavulanate	Alive
49/male [17]	Alcoholic hepatitis	Community	Pneumonia	PTA/Enterococcus faecalis	Penicillin, Ampicillin	Vancomycin	Alive
NA/NA [18]	Chronic hemodialysis	Community	Pneumonia	NA/Enterococcus faecium	Multidrug resistant	Vancomycin	Alive
68/female [8]	Lymphoma	Nosocomial	PneumoniaEmpyema	BAL, pleural fluid and blood/ Enterococcus faecium	ampicillin	Vancomycin+ Gentamicin	Died
29/male [19]	kidney transplant recipient	Nosocomial	Lung abscesses	Blood and BAL/ Enterococcus faecium	NA	teicoplanin linezolide	Alive
63/female [20]	CVA	Nosocomial	PneumoniaEmpyema	TTA and sputum/ Enterococcus faecalis	NA	Amoxicillin/clavulanate	Alive
81/male [21]	Renal carcinoma chronic renal failure	Nosocomial	Pneumonia	Blood and sputum/ Enterococcus faecalis	gentamicin	ampicillin	Alive
41/male [22]	HIV	Community	Pneumoniaempyema	Lung tissue/ Enterococcus faecium	Vancomyci-n	linezolid	Alive
[23] 73/male	pancreatic cancer diabetes	Community	Pneumonia	Sputum/ Enterococcus faecium	Ampicillin Levofloxacin	Vancomycin	Alive
75/male [24]	Asthma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia	Nosocomial	Pneumonia	BAL and blood/ Enterococcus faecium	Vancomyci-n	linezolid and daptomycin	Died
67/male [25]	Asplenia, COPD, CVA and alcohol abuse	Community	Pneumoniaempyema	pleural fluid/ Enterococcus faecium	Ampicillin Vancomyci-n	linezolid	Alive

NA Not available, CVD Cerebrovascular disease, CAD Coronary artery disease, PVD Peripheral vascular disease, BAL Bronchoalveolar lavage, PSB Protected brush specimen, TTA Transtracheal aspiration, PTA Percutaneous transthoracic aspiration, HIV Human immunodeficiency virus, A. fib Atrial fibrillation; CVA Cerebrovascular accident, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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