Open AccessColistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Surgical Polytrauma Intensive Care Unit of Level-1 Trauma Center: First Case Series from Trauma Patients in India
Author(s) -
Richa Aggarwal,
Neha Rastogi,
Purva Mathur,
Kapil Dev Soni,
Subodh Kumar,
Amit Gupta,
Sushma Sagar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.4103/ijccm.ijccm_430_17
Subject(s) - medicine , polytrauma , colistin , intensive care unit , trauma center , pneumonia , klebsiella pneumoniae , surgery , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , chemistry , escherichia coli , gene , biology
There have been isolated case reports and reports of outbreak of colistin-resistant Klebsiella from various parts of the world but only two from India and that too from oncology centers. We report cluster of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia bloodstream infection cases from our surgical trauma Intensive Care Unit.