Authors : P Kishore Kumar, Chinta Rohit Kumar, Pasumala Varun, Thokala Ruchitha, T Rama Rao
Volume : 14
Issue : 6
Year : 2025
Page No : 10-13
Multi drug-resistant (MDR) infections have become a severe problem in health care settings with causing outcomes such as extended hospitalization, mortality, financial strain on the patients etc. Even though diagnostic advancements have taken place facilitating accurate and rapid detection of specific drug resistance patterns, lack of newer drugs in combatting infections has take toll on many patients. Usually, a bacterial colony cultured from any patient’s sample being non susceptible to at least one agent in 3 or more antibiotic classes may be termed as a multi drug resistant bacteria and such infections can become fatal causing huge numbers of mortality if communicability is possible. Even endotracheal intubation can be a risk factor for acquiring pneumonia, shortly called as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP). In this case report, the authors review a presentation of pneumonia which was found to be caused by multi drug resistant Acinetobacter sp. also causing type 1 respiratory failure in the patient