A case of wound infection caused by Shewanella algae in the south of Iran

Shewanella algae was isolated from the purulent discharge in the navel area of a young male with a history of swimming in the Persian Gulf. A routine laboratory diagnosis procedure, followed by 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses, was used to avoid misidentification with other species of Shewanella. The bacterium was suscetible to ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, nalidixic acid, nitrophorantion, amikacin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, gentamicin and co-trimoxazole but was resistant to amoxicillin, vancomycin, doxycycline, cephalexin, ampicillin, tetracycline, cephalothin and ceftizoxime. The patient successfully recovered after treatment with antibiotics.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  new microbes and new infections

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/2052-2975.33PMID 25356336PMCID 4184621
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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