case_images: PMC10634497_01
case_images: Chest X-ray (CXR) AP view of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) (a) Arrow showing right lower zone dense patch of VAP on the eighty-first day of illness (DOI-81). Panel (b) and (c) showing resolution at (DOI-87) and (DOI-93) respectively.
case_images: acmi-5-672.v3-g001.jpg
case_images: PMC10634497_02_acmi-5-672.v3-g001.jpg
case_images: F1
case_images: Intravenous ciprofloxacin was started as per culture sensitivity, and the patient improved after 12 days of treatment (DOI-83 to 94), as evident clinically by a decrease in tracheal secretions, decreased TLC counts, and clearance of CXR opacities (Fig. 1).
case_images: MacConkey Agar showing non-lactose fermenting colonies of A.hydrophila.
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case_images: PMC10634497_01_acmi-5-672.v3-g002.jpg
case_images: F2
case_images: On culture colonies were haemolytic greyish and circular on blood agar and showed non-lactose fermenting, flat, non-mucoid, spreading colonies on MacConkey agar that were catalase-positive and oxidase-positive (Fig. 2).
case_images: PMC10634497_02
case_images: Chest X-ray (CXR) AP view of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) (a) Arrow showing right lower zone dense patch of VAP on the eighty-first day of illness (DOI-81). Panel (b) and (c) showing resolution at (DOI-87) and (DOI-93) respectively.
case_images: acmi-5-672.v3-g001.jpg
case_images: PMC10634497_02_acmi-5-672.v3-g001.jpg
case_images: F1
case_images: Intravenous ciprofloxacin was started as per culture sensitivity, and the patient improved after 12 days of treatment (DOI-83 to 94), as evident clinically by a decrease in tracheal secretions, decreased TLC counts, and clearance of CXR opacities (Fig. 1).