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EMPYEMA DUE TO BETA‐LACTAMASE‐PRODUCING H. INFLUENZAE TYPE b COMPLICATING SEVERE LARYNGO‐PHARYNGITIS and CERVICAL CELLULITIS
Author(s) -
ALLEN R. K. A.,
FAULKS L. W.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1983.tb04485.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cellulitis , pharyngitis , chloramphenicol , pneumonia , surgery , antibiotics , empyema , dermatology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A 70‐year‐old woman presented to hospital with an acute life‐threatening cervical cellulitis and laryngopharyngitis followed by pneumonia. Despite a month's treatment with intravenous antibiotics including cephamandole she developed a bacteremic empyema due to a beta‐lactamase producing H. influenzae. Subsequent treatment with chloramphenicol and surgical drainage was curative. The same pathogen was later isolated from her grandson's throat. Chloramphenicol is recommended as the drug of choice in such cases.