A Rapidly Fatal Infection With Haemophilus influenzae Serotype E Harboring bla _ROB-1: The Dilemma of Safe De-escalation in the Setting of Potential Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Production

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 12;5(12):ofy302. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy302. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

John Hanna¹, Yetunde Ogunsesan¹, Erik Snesrud², Rosslyn Maybank², Ana Ong², Yoon Kwak², Anthony Jones², Patrick McGann², Emil Lesho³

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine Residency Program, Rochester Regional Health, New York.
² Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.
³ Infectious Diseases Unit, Rochester Regional Health, New York.

No abstract available

Keywords: Haemophilus influenzae serotype E; fatal infection; whole-genome sequencing.

Publication types

Case Reports