Raoultella terrigena: Current state of knowledge, after two recently identified clinical cases in Eastern Europe

Nadiia Lekhniuk; Ulbolgan Fesenko; Yaroslav Pidhirnyi; Alicja Sękowska; Olena Korniychuk; Yulian Konechnyi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4089

Raoultella terrigena: Current state of knowledge, after two recently identified clinical cases in Eastern Europe

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Mar 31;9(5):e04089. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4089. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Nadiia Lekhniuk¹, Ulbolgan Fesenko², Yaroslav Pidhirnyi², Alicja Sękowska³, Olena Korniychuk⁴, Yulian Konechnyi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics and Biotechnology Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Lviv Ukraine.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Lviv Ukraine.
³ Department of Microbiology Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University Bydgoszcz Poland.
⁴ Department of Microbiology Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Lviv Ukraine.

Abstract

Raoultella terrigena is a rarely found opportunistic pathogen that can cause healthcare-associated infections with high mortality. It is important to differentiate it from Klebsiella species.

Keywords: Klebsiella; Raoultellaterrigena; clinical case; healthcare‐associated infections; literature review; opportunists; phylogenetic analysis; rare pathogen.

Publication types

Case Reports