Infection by multidrug-resistant Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: case reports

• Main Authors: Jailton Lobo da Costa Lima (Author), Giwellington Silva Albuquerque (Author), Lílian Rodrigues Alves (Author), Kaliny Benicio Torres (Author), Luciana Rezende Bandeira de Mello (Author), Polliana Guabiraba e Silva Cavalcanti (Author), Paulo Sérgio Ramos Araújo (Author), Maria Amélia Vieira Maciel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report two cases of sepsis in critically ill patients in two tertiary care hospitals in Recife-PE, Brazil. The first case is an 87-year-old patient with chronic myeloid leukemia and sepsis; and the second case is a 93-year-old patient with prostate cancer and septic shock caused by multidrug-resi...