Six cases of sepsis caused by Pantoea agglomerans in a teaching hospital.

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  • Maria Carla Liberto
  • Giovanni Matera
  • Rossana Puccio
  • Teresa Lo Russo
  • Elena Colosimo
  • Emanuele Focà
چکیده

Pantoea agglomerans is an environmental organism which may seldom cause opportunistic infections. Here we report on a 6 case outbreak in a teaching hospital. Within three months . agglomerans was isolated from blood cultures of 5 patients from oncology and 1 patient from ICU departments. P. agglomerans was in pure culture in 5 cases, while in the last one Rahnella aquatilis and Candida famata were also isolated. Therefore, P. agglomerans is able to produce nosocomial infections in patients with primary pathology often associated with immune suppression.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The new microbiologica

دوره 32 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009