An intubated 7-month-old infant with a retropharyngeal abscess and multidrug-resistant Streptococcus mitis.
Yoshihisa WatanabeYoshiro NagaoHisashi EndoIchiro YamaneMasaaki HirataKuniya HatakeyamaPublished in: Clinical case reports (2019)
The profile of antimicrobial resistance (ie, antibiogram) may be disparate between children and adults. An infant developed severe deep neck infection with a multidrug-resistant microbe. The microbe was more drug-resistant in children than in adults, in our hospital. Treatment of a child should be guided by the antibiogram obtained from children.