Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia soft tissue infection with tigecycline: a case report.

摘要

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a nonfermen-tative, Gram-negative bacillus of increasing importance as a nosocomial pathogen. S. maltophilia has been implicated in a broad spectrum of clinical syndromes, including pneumonia, bloodstream infection, skin infections and surgical-site-related infections . S. maltophilia shares with other emerging multidrug-resistant Gram-negative organisms the ability to produce beta-lactamase enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of beta-lactam-based antibiotics, such as penicillins, cephalosporins and carbapenems.