Enterobacter aerogenes

[NurseQT]

Has anyone had patients that had an infection with this organism? Taking care of a resident now who has a UTI and the lab instructed us to place her on contact precautions.. Can't find anything to explain why we'd need to initiate precautions such as this... Any ideas?

[Oh'Ello, BSN, RN]

E. aerogenes has a significant (and ever increasing) potential for rapid drug resistance.

Did the Lab include a C&S? That might hold the key to what you're looking for.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

This may help....

[h=3]Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes infections and in vivo emergence of imipenem resistance.[/h]