Shewanella putrefaciens: An Emerging Cause of Nosocomial Pneumonia

Gram-negative infections are a rising concern faced by the medical community. Approximately 30% of nosocomial bloodstream infections in intensive care units in the United States are caused by these gram-negative species. Emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms further complicate this issue. In th...

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Autores principales: Ullah, Saad, Mehmood, Hassan, Pervin, Nawja, Zeb, Hassan, Kamal, Khushbakht Ramsha, Liaqat, Sadaquat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618775441
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author Ullah, Saad
Mehmood, Hassan
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Kamal, Khushbakht Ramsha
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description Gram-negative infections are a rising concern faced by the medical community. Approximately 30% of nosocomial bloodstream infections in intensive care units in the United States are caused by these gram-negative species. Emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms further complicate this issue. In this article, we report a case of an 84-year-old Caucasian male who was diagnosed with Shewanella pneumonia treated with cefepime with minimal to no improvement in his symptoms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third reported case of Shewanella putrefaciens nosocomial pneumonia and first case of bacteremia secondary to pneumonia by Shewanella putrefaciens.
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spelling pubmed-59566332018-05-24 Shewanella putrefaciens: An Emerging Cause of Nosocomial Pneumonia Ullah, Saad Mehmood, Hassan Pervin, Nawja Zeb, Hassan Kamal, Khushbakht Ramsha Liaqat, Sadaquat J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Gram-negative infections are a rising concern faced by the medical community. Approximately 30% of nosocomial bloodstream infections in intensive care units in the United States are caused by these gram-negative species. Emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms further complicate this issue. In this article, we report a case of an 84-year-old Caucasian male who was diagnosed with Shewanella pneumonia treated with cefepime with minimal to no improvement in his symptoms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third reported case of Shewanella putrefaciens nosocomial pneumonia and first case of bacteremia secondary to pneumonia by Shewanella putrefaciens. SAGE Publications 2018-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5956633/ /pubmed/29796395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618775441 Text en © 2018 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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