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Achromobacter
Hello Our 11 years old son is principally chronically colonized with Achromobacter xylosoxidans (and also with Staphylococus Aureus controlled with daily Floxapen) and intermittently with 2 other Achromobacter…. We are surprised that he receives only Colistin aerosol therapy against this ...
04.07.2011
Pseudomonas Pseudoalcaligenes
Hello, in the throat swab of my daughter (2.5 years old) now Pseudomonas Pseudoalcaligenes has been found for the first time. The center cannot classify this Pseudomonas. Perhaps you have an idea. Would you treat this germ directly with and antibiotic drug? Many thanks and best regards,
28.06.2011
Haemophilus
My daughter, 2.5 years old with CF, got her first bacteria, Haemophilus, which has just being treated by antibiotics for 2 weeks. What about this bacteria? Is it dangerous? Is it possible to get it playing in sand on the beach? Thank you
30.05.2011
staphylococcus aureus
My daughter is colonized by Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. She finished an intravenous antibiotics course one month ago and she has already bronchial obstruction and dyspnea. If we manage to eliminate staphylococcus, will P. aeruginosa be less aggressive? Which antibiotics will ...
23.05.2011
sputum sample
Hello, The physiotherapist of the CF Centre has been unable this morning to obtain some sputa from my 5 months old daughter for microbiological culture. He/she said that her bronchi were not enough infected. I don’t understand. In some CF Centres, each month a sputum sample is obtained from each ...
10.05.2011
Staphylococcal infection we are treating is chronic?
Thank you for a very useful Q&A! My seven-year-old complains with knee and leg pain and that she suddenly feels she cannot walk. She has CF. We do not listen to carefully, but then, I found this on the web (e-corn-cf.eu): CF-arthropathy 2) Episodic (acute) arthritis Hereby it deals in ...
05.05.2011
Klebsiella pneumoniae
My son is 7 month old now. The diagnosis has been made in November 2010 after a really severe phase with atelectasis and pneumonia. After that and until now he is doing obviously fine and he is even overweight. Since then we gave him prophylactically ampicillin and sulbactam. At the end of january ...
14.04.2011
Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenza
Dear expert team, in the throat swab of our daughter (actually 1.5 years old, diagnosed with CF at the age of 3.5 months) the above mentioned germs have been found (Staph. already for the third time / Haemophilus for the second time, there were months, where she was free of germs). Our actual ...
21.03.2011
Trichosporon
Dear expert team, we have the following question on behalf of our daughter (29 years old, CF): Her lungs have been colonized for several years with trichosporon, and she has been taking VFEND® (voriconazole) on and off for three years. Since the fungus is giving her a really hard time, she ...
13.02.2011
Pseudomonas stutzeri in the lung - request
Only a short comment to the article [Pseudomonas stutzeri in the lung from the 5.12.2010]. Dear expert team, I do not know if I have skipped something. But here it seems to involve apparently not yet a known CF but "only" cough with the finding of Pseudomonas. Or do I got something wrong? Would ...
17.02.2011
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