Bacteroides fragilis

Precautions

Standard Precautions
Standard Precautions

General Information

Pathogen information

Anaerobic gram negative rod

Epidemiology

  • Most common anaerobic infection "below the diaphragm"

  • Colonizes GI tract of all humans, colon>small bowel.

Associated syndromes

  • Intra-abdominal abscess/sepsis

  • Perianal abscess

  • Tubo-ovarian abscess