Hospital acquired urinary tract infection by multidrug-resistant Brevundimonas vesicularis

oleh: Puneet K Gupta, Suma B Appannanavar, Harsimran Kaur, Vikas Gupta, Balvinder Mohan, Neelam Taneja

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01

Deskripsi

Infections caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis, a nonfermenting Gram-negative bacterium, are very rare. Here, we report the first case of multidrug-resistant hospital acquired urinary tract infection by B. vesicularis. Patient was successfully treated with antimicrobial therapy with piperacillin-tazobactam and amikacin.