Citrobacter infections in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Mohanty, Srujana; Singhal, Ritu; Sood, Seema; Dhawan, Benu; Kapil, Arti; Das, Bimal Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2006.01.015

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“…Intensive use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is responsible for the conversion of enterococci, the otherwise gut commensal bacteria, to opportunistic nosocomial pathogens (Huycke et al, 1998;Mohanty et al, 2005). There have been reports of the emergence of acquired drug-resistant enterococci in India but glycopeptide resistance is infrequently reported (Mohanty et al, 2005;Ghoshal et al, 2006).…”

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Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings

Sekar

Srivani

Vignesh

et al. 2008

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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“…There have been reports of the emergence of acquired drug-resistant enterococci in India but glycopeptide resistance is infrequently reported (Mohanty et al, 2005;Ghoshal et al, 2006). Nonetheless, there have been almost no reports on the faecal carriage of enterococci in India.…”

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Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings

Sekar

Srivani

Vignesh

et al. 2008

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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“…(5) However, recent studies emphasize that they can cause serious infections, especially in neonates and immuno-compromised adults and older children. (6,7) In a large case series by Lawson and Reino, (8) 132 cases of isolated sphenoid sinus diseases were reviewed. Headache was the most common presenting symptom, followed by visual changes and cranial nerve palsies.…”

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Isolated sphenoid sinus lesion: A diagnostic dilemma

Alazzawi¹,

Ibrahim²,

Ibrahim³

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Qatar Medical Journal

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Isolated sphenoid sinus lesions are an uncommon entity and present with non-specific symptoms. In this case report, the patient presented with a history of headaches for a duration of one month without sinonasal symptoms. A computed tomography scan showed a soft tissue mass occupying the sphenoid sinus. An endoscopic biopsy revealed fungal infection. Endoscopic wide sphenoidotomy with excision of the sphenoid sinus lesion was then performed however, the microbiological examination post-surgery did not show any fungal elements. Instead, Citrobacter species was implicated to be the cause of infection.

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“…There were 4 samples in which bacteria detected by BC were not on the PCR test menu but were the cause of sepsis. Citrobacter, which is now increasingly a cause of sepsis in compromised hosts [20,21], is one of them. The other 3 samples included anaerobic bacteria, Bacteroides species, and Fusobacterium species, which have been highlighted recently as causes of severe sepsis [22].…”

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Potential Clinical Usefulness of the Polymerase Chain Reaction Test to Detect Pathogens Causing Sepsis

Matsushima¹,

Tasaki²,

Shimazu³

et al. 2012

J Medical Microbiol Diagnosis

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Objective: A real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is expected for early and precise detection of pathogens in blood. In this study, we compared the ability of the PCR test and blood culture to detect pathogens in the blood of patients with sepsis. Methods:Patients who were diagnosed as or suspected of having sepsis were included in this prospective observational study. A whole blood sample for PCR test was obtained serially simultaneously with the blood culture sample, and the results were compared. Results:We obtained 93 samples from 26 patients; 69 samples were obtained during the septic condition, and 24 samples were from the non-septic condition. Origins of sepsis were pneumonia in 9 patients, necrotizing fasciitis in 5 patients, and other causes in 12 patients. In the septic condition, rates of positive results were 29.0% for the PCR test and 23.2% for blood culture. Sample contamination occurred in 1 PCR test sample and 5 blood culture samples. In positive PCR samples, 16 of 20 samples were obtained during sepsis after beginning administration of broadspectrum antibiotics, whereas 5 of 12 samples, except for contaminated samples, were positive in blood culture. Conclusion:In sepsis, the PCR test detected more bacteria than did blood culture even after administration of empirical antibiotics, which might contribute to precise diagnosis of the bacteremic cause of sepsis.

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Citrobacter infections in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Cited by 90 publications

References 19 publications

Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings

Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings

Isolated sphenoid sinus lesion: A diagnostic dilemma

Potential Clinical Usefulness of the Polymerase Chain Reaction Test to Detect Pathogens Causing Sepsis

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