Extra-abdominal infections caused by Comamonas kerstersii: Case report.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Comamonas kerstersii mainly causes intra-abdominal infections with favorable outcomes due to high antibiotic susceptibility. We report the first case of pneumonia caused by C Kerstersii, which promoted patient death, and a second urinary tract infection by C Kerstersii with extensive drug resistance.

Patient concerns

A 46-year-old male (Case 1) with craniocerebral injury underwent emergency decompressive craniectomy, but his condition deteriorated further and presented with discontinuous fever, small moist rales on both lungs, and respiratory failure. Retrospective average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis of the genomic sequence of the sputum isolate identified it as C Kerstersii 12322-1, antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) revealed that it was sensitive t

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10843495 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature