Trauma Wound Related Infection Caused by Enterobacter cancerogenus and Aeromonas hydrophilia.

Authors :: Hadano Y
Tamagawa K
Ohkusu K
Source :: Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) [Intern Med] 2018 Jan 01; Vol. 57 (1), pp. 131-133. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Oct 16.
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: We herein describe a case of trauma-related wound infection with a subcutaneous abscess caused by both Enterobacter cancerogenus and Aeromonas hydrophila. An 89-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital because of an injury that he had suffered in a car accident. The right dorsal region of the foot around the wound was reddish and swelling. The pus culture on his right foot grew E. cancerogenus and A. hydrophila. The patient was successfully treated with a 10-day course of meropenem and a 25-day course of levofloxacin. E. cancerogenus can therefore be a causative pathogen in skin and soft tissue infections among trauma patients.

Subjects :: Aeromonas hydrophila isolation & purification
Aged, 80 and over
Asian People
Enterobacter isolation & purification
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections diagnosis
Humans
Male
Meropenem
Treatment Outcome
Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections drug therapy
Levofloxacin therapeutic use
Thienamycins therapeutic use
Wound Infection drug therapy
Wound Infection microbiology

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