Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer!

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging gram-negative pathogen that was previously labeled as a colonizer. Nowadays, with multiple antibiotic usage along with certain host factors, infections caused by this organism are getting attention. We hereby report two cases of ventilator-associated pneum...

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Autores principales: Baidya, Ankita, Kodan, Parul, Fazal, Farhan, Tsering, Sandgup, Menon, P Ramesh, Jorwal, Pankaj, Chowdhury, Ujjwal Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31645832
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23241
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author Baidya, Ankita
Kodan, Parul
Fazal, Farhan
Tsering, Sandgup
Menon, P Ramesh
Jorwal, Pankaj
Chowdhury, Ujjwal Kumar
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description Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging gram-negative pathogen that was previously labeled as a colonizer. Nowadays, with multiple antibiotic usage along with certain host factors, infections caused by this organism are getting attention. We hereby report two cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia in postoperative infants by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU). How to cite this article: Baidya A, Kodan P, Fazal F, Tsering S, Menon RP, Jorwal P, et al. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer! Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(9):434–436.
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spelling pubmed-67757122019-10-23 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer! Baidya, Ankita Kodan, Parul Fazal, Farhan Tsering, Sandgup Menon, P Ramesh Jorwal, Pankaj Chowdhury, Ujjwal Kumar Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging gram-negative pathogen that was previously labeled as a colonizer. Nowadays, with multiple antibiotic usage along with certain host factors, infections caused by this organism are getting attention. We hereby report two cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia in postoperative infants by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU). How to cite this article: Baidya A, Kodan P, Fazal F, Tsering S, Menon RP, Jorwal P, et al. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer! Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(9):434–436. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6775712/ /pubmed/31645832 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23241 Text en Copyright © 2019; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Menon, P Ramesh
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Chowdhury, Ujjwal Kumar
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer!
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title_sort stenotrophomonas maltophilia: more than just a colonizer!
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31645832
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23241
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