Linezolid Add-On Rescue Therapy Cured MRSA Necrotizing Pneumonia: A Case Report in a Preterm Infant

Abbas Moosa Al-Omran; Sameer Yaseen Al-Abdi; Hasan Mohammad Al-Amer

doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0219.v1

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Linezolid Add-On Rescue Therapy Cured MRSA Necrotizing Pneumonia: A Case Report in a Preterm Infant

Abbas Moosa Al-Omran^*

,Sameer Yaseen Al-Abdi,Hasan Mohammad Al-Amer

Abbas Moosa Al-Omran^*

,Sameer Yaseen Al-Abdi,Hasan Mohammad Al-Amer

Submitted:

09 July 2020

Posted:

11 July 2020

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Abstract

Necrotizing pneumonia due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is devastating and difficult to treat in preterm infants. We report a case of severe MRSA necrotizing pneumonia in a preterm infant. As an add-on rescue therapy to vancomycin, linezolid rapidly cured this case after the failure of vancomycin plus rifampicin. This rapid cure suggests that adjunctive rather than rescue linezolid may be considered in such cases.

Keywords:

Preterm infant

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Necrotizing pneumonia

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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

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Pneumatoceles

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Linezolid

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Vancomycin

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Rifampicin

Subject:

Medicine and Pharmacology - Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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