Physician’s dilemma in treating Acinetobacter baumanii: A combination of art and science

Authors

  • Sagar Khadanga Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, AIIMS Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
  • Karuna Tadepalli Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, AIIMS Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
  • Pravat Kumar Thatoi Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, SCB Medical College, Odisha
  • Rina Mohanty Professor, Department of Medicine, SCB Medical College, Odisha
  • Namita Mohapatra Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, SCB Medical College, Odisha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10405

Keywords:

Acinetobacter baumanii, Commensal, MDR (multi drug resistant), Nosocomial.

Abstract

Acinetobacter are gram negative coccobacilli and ubiquitous in nature1. Quiet frequently they are recovered from inpatients who are hospitalized for prolonged illness and often multiple times.  Although originally considered to be a low grade opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter species has emerged to be one of the common nosocomial pathogen. These isolates are often MDR1. It still remains a physician’s dilemma whether to treat or not such isolates, considering them pathological or commmensals.  In one of our case it was isolated as a commensal and the patient did not require any antibiotic. On the hand the second case succumbed just after we started the susceptible antibiotic. 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10405

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.6(2) 2015 105-107

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Published

2014-09-15

How to Cite

Khadanga, S., Tadepalli, K., Thatoi, P. K., Mohanty, R., & Mohapatra, N. (2014). Physician’s dilemma in treating Acinetobacter baumanii: A combination of art and science. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 6(2), 105–107. https://doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10405

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Case Reports

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