Y. Sawada, Rieko Kabashima-Kubo, R. Hino
May 1, 2014
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Acta dermato-venereologica
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© 2014 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1704 Journal Compilation © 2014 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Cefozopran is a fourth-generation cephem antibiotics and has a broad spectrum of antibacterial activity, inhibiting most of the gram-negative and gram-positive organisms and is used as an antibiotic agent for the empirical treatment of bacterial infections in febrile neutropenia patients (1). There have been several case reports of mild cutaneous side effects, such as exanthema, due to cefozopran, however, no severe drug eruption by cefozopran has been documented in English literature. Herein, we report the first case of toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) caused by cefozopran.