Raoultella ornithinolytica a rare organism as cause of resistant UTI in apparently immunocompetent child: A case report.

Nishant Acharya; Priyanka Sharma

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

Raoultella ornithinolytica a rare organism as cause of resistant UTI in apparently immunocompetent child: A case report.

Nishant Acharya, Priyanka Sharma

Abstract :

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common bacterial infection in pediatric population, invariably caused by the family Enterobacteriaceae among whom Raoultella ornithinolytica is a rare species associates with human infections. Though majority of case are associated with malignancy, diabetes and immunocompromised states, the cases are increasingly been isolated in immunocompetent individuals. Cases are underreported by conventional phenotypic methods but arrival of newer techniques such as, MALDI-TOF MS has assured a very promising role in their identification. We are illustrating here a paediatric case with resistant UTI in whom Raoultella ornithinolytica has been isolated.