The phrase "intractable infection" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a severe or persistent infection that is difficult to treat or control. Example: The patient was hospitalized due to an intractable infection that did not respond to multiple rounds of antibiotics.
In both the popular press and the scientific literature, linezolid has been called a "reserve antibiotic"—one that should be used sparingly so that it will remain effective as a drug of last resort against potentially intractable infections.
Mycobacterial diseases are intractable infections in which the bacteria persist in granulomas for decades without disease progression [10].
This finding suggests that Gd shares an important characteristic with fungal pathogens, which cause serious and intractable infections in humans.
Unrecognised recto-urethral fistulas (RUF) may manifest with pneumaturia, fecaluria, haematuria, intractable urinary infection and sometimes sepsis.
An alternative approach to decreasing these risk factors could have been the administration of high-dose daptomycin upon the diagnosis of an intractable MRSA infection.
Sherry et al. demonstrated the successful use of the commercial phytochemical mixture Polytoxinol™ containing the extracts from Lemongrass, Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, Clove, Thyme as well as B.H.T. (Butylated Hydroxy Toluene), Triclosan (0.3%) and 95 undematured ethano (69.7%) to treat an intractable MRSA infection of the tibia in an adult patient [ 58].
In their two-decade history, imipenem and meropenem have primarily been used to treat intractable, severe infections.
As I write this, Khoruts has done 40 transplants to treat intractable C diff infection, with a success rate of 93%.
Risks include the development of an antibiotic-resistant infection, intractable diarrhea, kidney or liver damage and, as happened to a 30-year-old woman treated with an antibiotic through a catheter, death from a systemic infection called sepsis.
