Pre-extensively Drug-Resistant Congenital Tuberculosis in an Extremely Premature Baby

Author:

Boast Alison123ORCID,How Jeu Ann4,Lau Charis45,Sett Arun678,Gilby Damien4,Burke Andrew910,McWhinney Brett11,Wright Connor12,Tramontana Adrian12,Globan Maria13,Denholm Justin1415,Graham Stephen M1,Osowicki Joshua1216

Affiliation:

1. Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

2. Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

3. Antimicrobials Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

4. Newborn Services, Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital , St Albans, Victoria , Australia

5. Pharmacy Department, Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital , St Albans, Victoria , Australia

6. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

7. Newborn Research Centre, The Royal Women's Hospital , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

8. Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine , Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria , Australia

9. Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital , Chermside, Queensland , Australia

10. Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Australia

11. Department of Chemical Pathology, Pathology Queensland, Queensland Health , Herston , Australia

12. Department of Infectious Diseases, Western Health , St Albans, Victoria , Australia

13. Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

14. Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne Health , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

15. Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity , Melbourne, Victoria , Australia

16. Tropical Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute , Parkville, Victoria , Australia

Abstract

Abstract We describe a case of congenital tuberculosis in an extremely premature baby, with rapid molecular detection of a pre-extensively drug-resistant (XDR) pattern of drug resistance. The baby was treated successfully with a regimen including bedaquline and delamanid, drugs not previously described in the treatment of congenital tuberculosis (TB).

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Reference14 articles.

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