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Chronic venous leg ulcer with multidrug resistant bacterial infection in a tertiary care hospital of Eastern India

Author(s) -

Kalidas Rit,

Falguni Nag,

Abhik Sarkar,

PrasantaKumar Maiti

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of the scientific society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2278-7127

pISSN - 0974-5009

DOI - 10.4103/0974-5009.115489

Subject(s) - medicine , acinetobacter , venous leg ulcer , multiple drug resistance , staphylococcus aureus , leg ulcer , chronic venous insufficiency , intensive care medicine , drug resistance , antibiotics , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , genetics , biology

Chronic venous leg ulcer represents a major issue for both patients and health-care provider being associated with impaired quality of life. We here report a case of non-healing venous ulcer over gaiter area of right leg. The ulcer presented with unique features of polymicrobial infection of multi-drug resistant species including, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, metallo-β lactamase producing Acinetobacter baumanii and Acinetobacter lowffii

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