Non healing legs ulcers infected with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

نویسندگان

  • Pasquale Fino
  • Paolo Fioramonti
  • Massera Diego
  • Vittoria Amorosi
  • Maria Giuseppina Onesti
چکیده

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S.M.) is a Gram-negative bacillus, naturally resistant to cephalosporins and carbapenems, which can colonize different sites and may be responsible for serious infections for which treatment is a real challenge. This was rarely reported as cutaneous pathogenic organism causing cellulitis-like lesions, paronychia, mucocutaneous ulcers and ecthyma gangrenosum in immunocompromised individuals. We report a case of non-healing legs ulcer infected with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annali italiani di chirurgia

دوره 84 ePub  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013