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CASE REPORT article

Front. Pharmacol.

Sec. Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1633982

This article is part of the Research TopicPrecision Medicine in Pediatrics - Volume IIView all 23 articles

Sulbactam-durlobactam combination therapy for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii sepsis with cutaneous involvement in an infant with acute monocytic leukemia: A case report

Provisionally accepted
  • West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) causes severe infections and poses significant treatment challenges. Sulbactam-durlobactam (SUL-DUR) is a novel antibiotic, but its use in children and infants has not been reported. We reported the first case of an infant with acute leukemia successfully treated with SUL-DUR for CRAb sepsis with cutaneous involvement

Keywords: Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Sulbactam-durlobactam, Infant, Sepsis, case report

Received: 23 May 2025; Accepted: 27 Aug 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Fu, Xue, Guo, Huang, Yang and Gao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Rong Yang, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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