Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Emerging Infections with Rare Human Pathogen Shewanella

  • Author:
  • V Praveen Kumar1, P Samatha1, G Obulesu2, L AnandaKumar3, V Sreenivasulu Reddy4, P Apparao5
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 55 to 59

1Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Kunnavalam (Post), Tiruvallur (Dist), Chennai

2Tutor, Department of Microbiology, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Kunnavalam (Post), Tiruvallur (Dist), Chennai

3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Kunnavalam (Post), Tiruvallur (Dist), Chennai

4Professor & HOD, Department of Microbiology, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Kunnavalam (Post), Tiruvallur (Dist), Chennai

5Professor, Department of Microbiology, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Kunnavalam (Post), Tiruvallur (Dist), Chennai

Online published on 23 January, 2014.

Abstract

Shewanella is a rare human pathogen, infrequently recovered from clinical specimens that can lead to fatal infections in humans [1, 2]. Although a number of clinical syndromes have been attributed with Shewanella spp the pathogenic role of the agent remains undefined. The present study was conducted to isolate Shewanella spp which were wrongly reported as Pseudomonas spp [3] and to add the pathogenic role of Shewanella in isolated cases. We report here seven Shewanella isolates, five among the seven are Shewanella algae and two are Shewanella putrefaciens.

Keywords

Shewanella algae, Shewanella putrefaciens, Gram Negative Bacilli, Emerging Pathogen, Non healing ulcer, H2S, TSI, Cephalosporins