Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica
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Volume 58: Issue 3
Serratia Ficaria isolated from sputum specimen
Authors: Mustafa Gul 1 , Ekrem Dogan 2 , Ekrem Kirecci 3 , Hasan Ucmak 4 , Ebubekir Dirican 1 , and Abdullah Karadag 1
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  • 1 Department of Medical Microbiology Faculty of Medicine Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Kahramanmaras Turkey
  • | 2 Department of Nephrology Faculty of Medicine Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Kahramanmaras Turkey
  • | 3 Health High School Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Kahramanmaras Turkey
  • | 4 Faculty of Medicine Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Department of Infectious Diseases Kahramanmaras Turkey
Pages:
235–238
Online Publication Date:
08 Oct 2011
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/amicr.58.2011.3.7
Keywords:
figs; infections; Serratia ficaria ; sputum; colonization
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Serratia ficaria was first described in 1979 as a Gram-negative facultative anaerobic rod. S. ficaria was found in figs, but also isolated from human specimens in a few cases. We now report an isolate of S. ficaria from sputum specimen.A 46-year-old man was suffering from a chronic renal failure of five years, four months of peritoneal dialysis and one week of fever due to respiratory tract infection, accompanied by cough. Sputum culture yielded a Gram-negative rod. It was identified as S. ficaria and the antibiotic susceptibility test was performed by automated Vitek II (bioMerieux). The tested S. ficaria strain was susceptible to amikacin, gentamicin, cefepime, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, imipenem, meropenem, tigecycline and ciprofloxacin. This strain was resistant to ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cephalothin, cefoxitine, cefuroxime and ceftriaxone. The patient was treated successfully (80 mg trimethoprim/400 mg sulfamethoxazole twice daily for 7 days)S. ficaria is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for intestinal colonization or serious infections such as septicaemia, gall bladder empyema in immunocompromised patients. The fig tree and fig play an important role in human colonization. It should be remembered that S. ficaria infections may be encountered frequently especially in fig tree culture zones.

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