Open AccessHospital-acquired pneumonia due to Leclercia adecarboxylata in a neurosurgical centre
Author(s) -
Mridula Raj Prakash,
R. Ramesh Raju,
Nivedita Patra,
B Indiradevi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.153108
Subject(s) - medicine , isolation (microbiology) , pneumonia , tertiary care , intensive care medicine , pathogen , human pathogen , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , bacteria , biology , genetics
Leclercia adecarboxylata, a gram-negative bacillus of the Enterobacteriaceae family, is an uncommonly identified human pathogen. The organism has been reported worldwide and isolated from various environmental sources. Most human infections are polymicrobial and commonly occur in immunocompromised hosts, although nosocomial infections in immunocompetent hosts have been documented. We describe three case reports of L. adecarboxylata isolation from cases of hospital acquired pneumonia admitted to a tertiary care center for neurosurgical care.