A Case of Infective Endocarditis Caused by Community-Acquired Acinetobacter baumannii

摘要: Acinetobacter baumannii has become an important pathogen that causes healthcare-associated infections, including pneumonia, bacteremia, and urinary tract infection. Only sporadic cases of infective endocarditis (IE) have been reported worldwide, in particular, community-acquired IE caused by A. is very rare. To our knowledge, no case ever Korea. We report a 30-year-old woman who recovered from native-valve baumannii. She did not any underlying diseases presented with left-sided weakness, dysarthria, fever. On investigation acute cerebral infarction, vegetation on her anterior mitral leaflet was found echocardiography, cultured the blood. In this case, showed intermediate resistance to cefotaxime sensitive all other antibiotics. under- went antibiotic therapy cefoperazone/sulbactam for 5 weeks, without surgery. Consequently, absent fol- low-up complications related developed. (Korean J Med 2013;84:313-317)