Ocular infection caused by Psychrobacter immobilis acquired in the hospital.
The name Psychrobacter immobilis recently has been proposed for a group of chiefly psychrotrophic, aerobic, gram-negative, nonmotile, oxidase-positive coccobacilli commonly found associated with fish, processed meat, and poultry products. This article reports an ocular infection in a 12-day-old newborn who acquired the infection in the hospital, probably because of frequent manipulations in a closed aerated incubator. Also, this report intends to alert microbiologists to opportunistic infections that might be confused with infections caused by unusual oxidase-positive, gram-negative diplococci and to the isolation of P. immobilis from a human infection.
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Dr. Juan José Arévalo General Hospital, Guatemalan Social Security Institute, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000209:etiology*; D015818:Eye Infections, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*; D006088:Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D014871:Water Microbiology