Isolated from a typical presentation: an elderly male patient undergoing chemotherapy at the Bristol Oncology Unit, Bristol, UK in 1998 developed a bloodstream infection that did not respond to therapy with piperacillin/tazobactam, ceftazidime or imipenem.
Crossman LC, Gould VC, Dow JM, Vernikos GS, Okazaki A, Sebaihia M, Saunders D, Arrowsmith C, Carver T, Peters N, et al.
Title
The complete genome, comparative and functional analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia reveals an organism heavily shielded by drug resistance determinants.