Pseudomonas luteola cutaneous abscess and bacteraemia in a previously healthy man.
Pseudomonas luteola is uncommonly implicated in clinical infections, but it constitutes a significant nosocomial pathogen causing mainly infections associated with foreign material. This report describes an unusual case of a Pseudomonas luteola strain that infected and caused cutaneous abscess and bacteraemia in a previously healthy man.
Department of Internal Medicine, NIMTS General Hospital, Athens, Greece. dalamaga-chavelas@ath.forthnet.gr
Maria
M
Dalamaga
Konstantinos
K
Karmaniolas
Charilaos
C
Chavelas
Stavros
S
Liatis
Helen
H
Matekovits
Ilias
I
Migdalis
D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D000368:Aged; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*