Non healing legs ulcers infected with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

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Pasquale Fino
Paolo Fioramonti
Massera Diego
Vittoria Amorosi
Maria Giuseppina Onesti

Abstract

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S.M.) is a Gram-negative bacillus, naturally resistant to cephalosporins and carbapenems, which can colonize different sites and may be responsible for serious infections for which treatment is a real challenge. This was rarely reported as cutaneous pathogenic organism causing cellulitis-like lesions, paronychia, mucocutaneous ulcers and ecthyma gangrenosum in immunocompromised individuals. We report a case of non-healing legs ulcer infected with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

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Fino, Pasquale, et al. “Non Healing Legs Ulcers Infected With Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 2, no. April, Apr. 2013, pp. 1-5, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/551.
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