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Baidya A, Kodan P, Tsering S, Menon PR, Chowdhury UK. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: More than Just a Colonizer!. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019; 23 (9):434-436.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging gram-negative pathogen that was previously labeled as a colonizer. Nowadays, with multiple antibiotic usage along with certain host factors, infections caused by this organism are getting attention. We hereby report two cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia in postoperative infants by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU).
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