Pseudomonas fluorescens infections in clinical practice.
Pseudomonas fluorescens was isolated from an elderly immunocompromized patient with fever. Treatment with ceftazidime was successful, after empirical therapy failed. Pseudomonas fluorescens is 1 of the less virulent members of the Pseudomonadaceae family. The epidemiology of the infection and the difficulties in isolation and susceptibility assessment are further discussed.
Pappas
Georgios
G
Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. gpele@otenet.gr
Karavasilis
Vasilios
V
Christou
Leonidas
L
Tsianos
Epameinondas V
EV
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents