Abstract
The role of enteric microbiota in both physiologic and pathologic processes of the human body remains an incompletely understood and rapidly developing field of inquiry. Enterobacter is a genus of gram-negative facultative anaerobes exhibiting widespread resistance to various antibiotic therapies. It belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae, including such prominent members as Klebsiella, Escherichia, Shigella, and Salmonella. Here we present the case of an infant male on ventilatory support who developed hospital-acquired ventilator-associated pneumonia with cultures positive for multi-drug resistant (MDR) Enterobacter absuriae.
Publisher
Loma Linda Publishing Company