Recurrent Relatively Resistant Salmonella infantis Infection in 2 Immunocompromised Hosts Cleared With Prolonged Antibiotics and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Mariam Torres Soto; Sarah Hammond; Ramy H Elshaboury; Jacob Johnson; Elizabeth L Hohmann

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofy334

Recurrent Relatively Resistant Salmonella infantis Infection in 2 Immunocompromised Hosts Cleared With Prolonged Antibiotics and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Dec 14;6(1):ofy334. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy334. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Mariam Torres Soto¹, Sarah Hammond², Ramy H Elshaboury¹, Jacob Johnson¹, Elizabeth L Hohmann¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

Two immunocompromised patients with relapsing gastrointestinal infection with relatively resistant Salmonella infantis were cured with prolonged ertapenem followed by encapsulated fecal transplant.

Keywords: FMT; Salmonella; chronic carriage; fecal transplant.

Publication types

Case Reports