The antibiotic susceptibility of water-based bacteria Ralstonia pickettii and Ralstonia insidiosa

Ralstonia Pickettii Bacteremia

As mentioned in literature R. pickettii has been reported to cause respiratory tract infections, meningitis, peritonitis and sepsis [1-4]. Transmission may occur due to contaminated medical devices or solutions generally encountered in health care facilities. R. picketti has been reported to cause outbreaks also [5]. We present three case reports of R. pickettii bacteremia and a brief review of...

Metabolism of thioamides by Ralstonia pickettii TA.

Information on bacterial thioamide metabolism has focused on transformation of the antituberculosis drug ethionamide and related compounds by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. To study this metabolism more generally, a bacterium that grew using thioacetamide as the sole nitrogen source was isolated via enrichment culture. The bacterium was identified as Ralstonia pickettii and designated strain TA. C...

Ralstonia pickettii traced in blood culture bottles.

Over a 9-month period, 14 strains of Ralstonia pickettii were isolated from various biological samples inoculated in a blood culture medium. Molecular epidemiological investigation confirmed the relatedness of the strains. The source of the contamination proved to be the blood culture bottle caps.

An outbreak of Ralstonia pickettii endophthalmitis following intravitreal methotrexate injection

PURPOSE To report an outbreak of endophthalmitis in three eyes of two patients following intravitreal methotrexate, caused by Ralstonia pickettii. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series. METHODS Medical records and microbiology results of two patients who presented with acute endophthalmitis following intravitreal methotrexate injection in November 2013 were reviewed....

Ralstonia pickettii sepsis in a hemodialysis patient from Bulgaria