Arthrobacter albus infected implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Med Mal Infect. 2016 Feb;46(1):59-60. doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2015.11.003. Epub 2015 Dec 2.

Authors

A Bousquet¹, C Soler², C MacNab², A Le Fleche³, P Héno⁴

Affiliations

¹ Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin, fédération des laboratoires, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, fédération des laboratoires, 92140 Clamart, France.
³ Unité biodiversité des bactéries pathogènes émergentes, Institut Pasteur, , 75015 Paris, France.
⁴ Service de cardiologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 92140 Clamart, France.

PMID: 26654323
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2015.11.003

No abstract available

Keywords: Arthrobacter; Cardioverter-defibrillator; Défibrillateur implantable.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Arthrobacter / classification
Arthrobacter / drug effects
Arthrobacter / isolation & purification*
Biofilms
Brevibacterium
Deferoxamine / pharmacology
Defibrillators, Implantable / adverse effects*
Defibrillators, Implantable / microbiology
Device Removal
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Female
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / etiology*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Humans
Middle Aged
Prosthesis-Related Infections / drug therapy
Prosthesis-Related Infections / microbiology*
Ribotyping
Romania / ethnology
Species Specificity

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Deferoxamine