Journal of Laboratory Physicians (Mar 2023)

Emerging Bacterial Pathogens in the COVID-19 Era: <i>Chryseobacterium gleum</i>—A Case in Point

  • Archana Angrup,
  • Bhawna Sharma,
  • Inderpaul Singh Sehgal,
  • Manisha Biswal,
  • Pallab Ray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1757412
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 01
pp. 097 – 105

Abstract

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Introduction In the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, a long hospital stay and empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics make the patients prone to acquire nosocomial infections especially with unconventional organisms, and Chryseobacterium gleum is one such rare nosocomial pathogen.

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