Publications by authors named "Liliane Amrouche"

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Sm) pneumonia in immunocompromized hosts is an increasingly common nosocomial infection. Even though resistant to multiple antimicrobials, this gram-negative bacteria usually does not present with a fulminant course leading to a fatal hemorrhagic respiratory infection in neutropenic patients. We report here the case of a 63-year-old woman treated by intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who presented while severely neutropenic and thrombocytopenic a Sm pulmonary infection with hemoptysis leading to death in 48 h.

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