Shewanella Putrefaciens: An Emerging Gram-Negative Bacillus Causing Pneumonia and Bacteraemia
Keywords:
Pneumonia, Gram negative infection, Multidrug resistance, Shewanella putrefaciens
Abstract
The medical community is facing a big threat of rising atypical gram-negative infections, which get further complicated with
the emergence of multidrug resistant organisms. We report a case of 38-year-old male who was diagnosed with Shewanella
pneumonia which was resistant to cefepime. To the best of our literature search, this is the fifth reported case of Shewanella
putrefaciens pneumonia and second case of bacteraemia secondary to pneumonia by Shewanella putrefaciens.
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Case Reports in Medicine. 2012;2012:597301.
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2014;36(4):25-29.
Published
2021-12-27
How to Cite
Dr Saurabh Puri, Dr Ashok Grover, Dr Pankaj Nand Choudhry, Dr Neha Chaudhary, Dr Satyaki Dutta. (2021). Shewanella Putrefaciens: An Emerging Gram-Negative Bacillus Causing Pneumonia and Bacteraemia. The Indian Practitioner, 74(12), 35-37. Retrieved from https://articles.theindianpractitioner.com/index.php/tip/article/view/1288
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