TITLE:
Wound Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: A Case Report from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Rumana Alim, Sofia Andalib Safiullah, Shaila Munwar, Ishad Mazhar, Sifat Uz Zaman, Md. Sarwar Bari
KEYWORDS:
Chromobacterium violaceum, Wound Infection, Antibiotics
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Microbiology,
Vol.12 No.2,
February
24,
2022
ABSTRACT: Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram negative, facultative anaerobe, generally present in water, soil in tropical and subtropical regions. This bacterium is an emerging environmental pathogen that causes life threatening infection in humans and animals. It can cause wound infection, visceral abscess, septicaemia, meningitis, diarrhoea, UTI. It is associated with significant mortality due to severe systemic infection. As the bacteria have high spreading tendency leading to sepsis, early identification and prompt treatment is necessary. Here we report a case of Chromobacterium violaceum wound infection in a 9 years old male from Dhaka, who was successfully treated with combination of cefixime and flucloxacillin antibiotics as per culture sensitivity report.