Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 5
Letter to the Editor
Fecal microbiota transplantation: is there a role in the eradication of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae intestinal carriage?

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4425/2016

Ana Ponte, Rolando Pinho, Margarida Mota,

Abstract
The authors present the case of a 66-year-old woman with four hospitalizations due to recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) non responsive to vancomycin and fidaxomicin. Furthermore, intestinal colonization with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) was identified after a positive stool culture in a screening routinely performed in our center in patients recently hospitalized.
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Publication history

Received: 29/04/2016

Accepted: 17/09/2016

Online First: 15/02/2017

Published: 03/05/2017

Article revision time: 136 days

Article Online First time: 292 days

Article editing time: 369 days


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