Hiromasa Yamauchi

Leuconostoc bacteremia in three patients with malignancies

Leuconostoc is a Gram-positive coccus characterized by its resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics. Generally, this bacterium is susceptible to β-lactam antibiotics; however, here we present a leukemia patient who developed leuconostoc bacteremia during antimicrobial therapy with carbapenem. The appropriate choice of antibiotics at optimal doses enables leuconostoc infection to be overcome, even in compromised hosts. We report 3 cases of leuconostoc bacteremia: the leukemia case which was successfully treated, along with discussions of two other cases with malignancies.

Non‐myeloablative stem cell transplantation for accelerated‐phase chronic myeloid leukaemia: circumvention of graft rejection with donor leucocyte infusion early after transplantation

Keywords: accelerated phase; chronic myeloid leukaemia; non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation; donor leucocyte infusion; fluorescence in situ hybridization