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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 7, Issue:5, May, 2018

PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706
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Publisher : Excellent Publishers
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Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash
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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2018.7(5): 48-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.705.007


Emerging Pathogen: Shewanella Algae causing Burn Wound Infection - Report of Two Cases from a Tertiary Care Center
Pratibha Shamanna, Jayashree Ravindran, Jacinta Lalremruati and Muralidaran Sethumadavan
Department of Microbiology, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

Shewanella algae infections are rare in humans. Repeated isolation of the same organism from two different patients suffering from burn wound infection and successful treatment thereafter confirms the need of utmost microbiological vigilance to identify the unusual pathogen.


Keywords: Emerging pathogen, Shewanella algae

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Pratibha Shamanna, Jayashree Ravindran, Jacinta Lalremruati and Muralidaran Sethumadavan. 2018. Emerging Pathogen: Shewanella Algae causing Burn Wound Infection - Report of Two Cases from a Tertiary Care Center.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 7(5): 48-53. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.705.007
Copyright: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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