OUTBREAK OF PANTOEA SPECIES IN A TERTIARY CARE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN NORTH INDIA- A CASE SERIES
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 47
Abstract
BACKGROUND Pantoea genus comprises bacteria that are primarily opportunistic pathogens, but rarely cause disease in healthy individuals. MATERIALS AND METHODS An outbreak of sepsis caused by Pantoea spp. in a high dependency unit of a paediatric tertiary care hospital is presented in this report. Six cases developed nosocomial sepsis over a period of 20 days during October 2016. Blood culture samples sent to microbiology laboratory, processed in automated BacT/Alert blood culture system grew Pantoea spp. RESULTS Blood samples of all the six cases that developed sepsis within a span of 20 days in the same paediatric unit grew the same bacteria; Pantoea spp. with the same antibiotic susceptibility pattern. CONCLUSION Clustering of cases over a short period, points towards the ability of Pantoea spp. to cause outbreak. Reporting of Pantoea spp. should not be ignored when isolated from clinical samples. Possible exogenous sources for this organism should be monitored in a hospital setting
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Shivani Tyagi, Satinder Aneja, Randhawa V. S, Abhijeet Saha, Ravinder Kaur
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