Pneumonia in cat caused by Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans, a case report

Abstract

Previously called Enterobacter agglomerans, known to­day as Pantoea agglomerans is a gram negative bacillus, without capsule, facultative aerobic, that belongs to En­terobacteriacea family. It lives in plants, ground, water, human skin, animal and human feces. It is responsible for the majority of the nosocomial infections in human med­icine, causing infections related to intravenous infusions, neonatal meningitis and septic arthritis as a result of prick­ing with thorn plants (Kratz y Greenberg, 2003; Sauvezie y Sirot, 2000). In this article we report a case of a male cat (Felis catus), 7 years old, with chronic respiratory dis­ease, which didn´t response to a treatment with common use antibiotics, so we made a lung puncture, where was isolate Pantoea agglomerans. This microorganism was never communicated as a cause of this pathology in cats and resulted to be resistant to common use antibiotics.