Abstract

DECUADRO, A et al. Pneumonia in cat caused by Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans, a case report. Veterinaria (Montev.) [online]. 2015, vol.51, n.198, pp.3-3. ISSN 0376-4362.

Summary Previously called Enterobacter agglomerans, known today as Pantoea agglomerans is a gram negative bacillus, without capsule, facultative aerobic, that belongs to Enterobacteriacea family. It lives in plants, ground, water, human skin, animal and human feces. It is responsible for the majority of the nosocomial infections in human medicine, causing infections related to intravenous infusions, neonatal meningitis and septic arthritis as a result of pricking with thorn plants (Kratz y Greenberg, 2003; Sauvezie y Sirot, 2000). In this article we report a case of a male cat (Felis catus), 7 years old, with chronic respiratory disease, which didn´t response to a treatment with common use antibiotics, so we made a lung puncture, where was isolate Pantoea agglomerans. This microorganism was never communicated as a cause of this pathology in cats and resulted to be resistant to common use antibiotics.

Keywords : pneumonia; cat; Pantoea agglomerans.

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