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A Case of Chromobacterium Infection after Car Accident in Korea

Chromobacterium violaceum is a gram negative straight rod, 0.8-1.2 by 2.5 to 6.0 µm, which is motile by one polar flagella and one to four lateral flagella. The organism inhabits soil and water and is often found in semitropical and tropical climates. Infections in humans are rare. We report a case...

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Autores principales: Kim, Myeong Hee, Lee, Hee Joo, Suh, Jin Tae, Chang, Boo Soon, Cho, Kyu Seok
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Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16259070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.5.700
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author Kim, Myeong Hee
Lee, Hee Joo
Suh, Jin Tae
Chang, Boo Soon
Cho, Kyu Seok
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description Chromobacterium violaceum is a gram negative straight rod, 0.8-1.2 by 2.5 to 6.0 µm, which is motile by one polar flagella and one to four lateral flagella. The organism inhabits soil and water and is often found in semitropical and tropical climates. Infections in humans are rare. We report a case of infection caused by strains of C. violaceum. A 38-year-old male patient was admitted to KyungHee University Hospital, Seoul, Korea on July 28(th), 2003, after a car accident. The patient had multiple trauma and lacerations. He had an open wound in the left tibial area from which C. violaceum was isolated. The strain was resistant to ampicillin, tobramycin, ampicillin/sulbactam, ceftriaxone and cefepime, but was susceptible to amikacin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and piperacillin/tazobactam. The patient was treated successfully by debridement, cephapirin sodium and astromicine sulfate.
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spelling pubmed-28105782010-01-26 A Case of Chromobacterium Infection after Car Accident in Korea Kim, Myeong Hee Lee, Hee Joo Suh, Jin Tae Chang, Boo Soon Cho, Kyu Seok Yonsei Med J Case Report Chromobacterium violaceum is a gram negative straight rod, 0.8-1.2 by 2.5 to 6.0 µm, which is motile by one polar flagella and one to four lateral flagella. The organism inhabits soil and water and is often found in semitropical and tropical climates. Infections in humans are rare. We report a case of infection caused by strains of C. violaceum. A 38-year-old male patient was admitted to KyungHee University Hospital, Seoul, Korea on July 28(th), 2003, after a car accident. The patient had multiple trauma and lacerations. He had an open wound in the left tibial area from which C. violaceum was isolated. The strain was resistant to ampicillin, tobramycin, ampicillin/sulbactam, ceftriaxone and cefepime, but was susceptible to amikacin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and piperacillin/tazobactam. The patient was treated successfully by debridement, cephapirin sodium and astromicine sulfate. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2005-10-31 2005-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2810578/ /pubmed/16259070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.5.700 Text en Copyright © 2005 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Suh, Jin Tae
Chang, Boo Soon
Cho, Kyu Seok
A Case of Chromobacterium Infection after Car Accident in Korea
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title_short A Case of Chromobacterium Infection after Car Accident in Korea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16259070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.5.700
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