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Shewanella Putrefaciens: An Emerging Gram-Negative Bacillus Causing Pneumonia and Bacteraemia


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1 3rd year DNB Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
2 Senior consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
3 Medical Officer, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
4 1st year DNB Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
     

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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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Pneumonia, Gram negative infection, Multidrug resistance, Shewanella putrefaciens
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Authors

Saurabh Puri
3rd year DNB Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
Ashok Grover
Senior consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
Pankaj Nand Choudhry
Senior consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
Neha Chaudhary
Medical Officer, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India
Satyaki Dutta
1st year DNB Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India

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.

Keywords


Pneumonia, Gram negative infection, Multidrug resistance, Shewanella putrefaciens

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