Spectrum: Local Antimicrobial Stewardship, for Prisma Health Children’s Hospital-Midlands

Citrobacter koseri

Precautions

See 'Additional Information'
See 'Additional Information'

Susceptibilities

General susceptibility

General Susceptibilities

Susceptibilities

Antibiogram Data

General Information

Pathogen information

Pathogen information

Slowly fermenting gram negative rod, of the Enterobacteriaceae family

Epidemiology

Epidemiology

  • Widely distributed in the soil and water and part of the human GI flora, especially in hospitalized patients

  • Infection is usually in a nosocomial setting.

Associated syndromes

Associated syndromes

Nosocomial infections:

  • UTI,

  • Wound infections

  • Pneumonia (HAP)

  • Intra-abdominal infections

Additional Information

Additional Information

May require contact precautions if multi-drug resistant