Chronic venous leg ulcer with multidrug resistant bacterial infection in a tertiary care hospital of Eastern India

Abstract

Chronic venous leg ulcer represents a major issue for both patients and health-care provider being associated with impaired quality of life. We here report a case of non-healing venous ulcer over gaiter area of right leg. The ulcer presented with unique features of polymicrobial infection of multi-drug resistant species including, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, metallo-β lactamase producing Acinetobacter baumanii and Acinetobacter lowffii.

Keywords

• Acinetobacter
• metallo-β lactamase
• methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• multi-drug resistance
• venous leg ulcer