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Symptoms include cough and sputum production for approximately a month. The result of pleural effusion culture showed that bacterial colony grew. Then, the gram stain and automatic biochemical identification of the bacterial colony confirmed that it was acinetobacter baumannii. Initial treatment with intravenous meropenem 1g Q8h and vancomycin 1g Q12 was changed to Cefoperazone/sulbactam combining with tigecycline.

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