TY - JOUR
T1 - Bacteremia and urinary tract infection caused by chromobacterium violaceum
T2 - Case reports from a tertiary care hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal
AU - Pant, Narayan Dutt
AU - Acharya, Subhash Prasad
AU - Bhandari, Raju
AU - Yadav, Uday Narayan
AU - Saru, Dil Bahadur
AU - Sharma, Manisha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Narayan Dutt Pant et al.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Chromobacterium violaceum is ubiquitous in the environment of tropical and subtropical regions but the infections caused by this organism are rare and the urinary tract infections caused by it are even rarer. Due to the propensity for hematogenous spread leading to fatal sepsis, the infections caused by Chromobacterium violaceum have high mortality rate (65-80%) with death occurring in as less as one week of acquiring infection. So, prompt proper treatment is necessary for successful treatment of the infections but, due to the rarity of the infections caused by the organism, there is limited awareness among the clinicians regarding the infections caused by this organism. Here, we reported a case of urinary tract infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in a 84-year-old male, who was a kidney patient, and another case of bacteremia caused by the same bacterium in a road traffic accident patient (22-year-old male), both of which were managed with the timely suitable treatment.
AB - Chromobacterium violaceum is ubiquitous in the environment of tropical and subtropical regions but the infections caused by this organism are rare and the urinary tract infections caused by it are even rarer. Due to the propensity for hematogenous spread leading to fatal sepsis, the infections caused by Chromobacterium violaceum have high mortality rate (65-80%) with death occurring in as less as one week of acquiring infection. So, prompt proper treatment is necessary for successful treatment of the infections but, due to the rarity of the infections caused by the organism, there is limited awareness among the clinicians regarding the infections caused by this organism. Here, we reported a case of urinary tract infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in a 84-year-old male, who was a kidney patient, and another case of bacteremia caused by the same bacterium in a road traffic accident patient (22-year-old male), both of which were managed with the timely suitable treatment.
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U2 - 10.1155/2017/7929671
DO - 10.1155/2017/7929671
M3 - Article
SN - 1687-9627
VL - 2017
JO - Case Reports in Medicine
JF - Case Reports in Medicine
M1 - 7929671
ER -