Open AccessCedecea lapagei in a patient with malignancy
Author(s) -
Indu Biswal,
Nishat Ahmed Hussain,
RK Grover
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.147736
Subject(s) - malignancy , isolation (microbiology) , pathogen , cancer , opportunistic pathogen , medicine , buccal mucosa , oral cavity , dermatology , intensive care medicine , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , immunology , dentistry , genetics , bacteria , pseudomonas aeruginosa
Cedecea lapagei is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae and is an uncommon pathogen. There are very few reports of isolation of this organism from biological samples; mostly it is found to be a pathogen in elderly or otherwise medically compromised. We present a rare case of a patient with underlying malignancy of buccal mucosa, who developed an oral ulcer superinfected with C. lapagei. According to the available literature, this is the first case of C. lapagei from India detected in a cancer patient