Glucose Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Rods

摘要: Some gram-negative nonfermenters are associated with specific diseases—Bordetella pertussis whooping cough, Brucella brucellosis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae gonorrhea, meningitidis meningitis, Pseudomonas mallei glanders, and pseudomallei melioidosis—but these dealt in other chapters. The covered this chapter rarely diseases. Those organisms that free-living soil water can colonize moist sites a hospital, such as the nebulizer reservoirs of respiratory equipment, or disinfectant solutions. Other normal inhabitants mucous membranes. Strains both types organism may cause localized infections otherwise healthy hosts, but more widespread debilitated individual. Isolates group will frequently be doubtful clinical significance, they important opportunistic pathogens because several resistant to wide range antimicrobial agents.