Olmos Alpiste, FerranMartin Ezquerra, GemmaPujol Vallverdú, Ramon Maria2021-06-182021-06-182022Olmos Alpiste F, Martin Ezquerra G, Pujol RM. Wound infection by Pantoea agglomerans after penetrating plant injury. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2022;88(5):633-5. DOI: 10.25259/IJDVL_1069_190378-6323http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47928Pantoea agglomerans is a ubiquitous gram-negative bacterium that has been linked to skin and joint infections secondary to plant injuries. Herein we report a 58-year-old woman who presented with 2 erythematous nodules with purulent discharge on the anterior aspect of the right leg that developed after a penetrating plant injury. The patient was initially treated with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cloxacillin and clindamycin without improvement. P. agglomerans was isolated from both exudate and skin biopsy cultures. Healing of the lesions was achieved after the spontaneous release of a retained plant fragment and treatment with cotrimoxazole. Identification of P. agglomerans in persistent exudative lesions should alert the clinician regarding a possible previous plant injury and retained vegetal fragments. Conventional antibiotic treatment and the extraction of retained foreign bodies usually lead to complete resolution.application/pdfeng© 2021 Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology - Published by Scientific Scholar Licence. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJDVL_1069_19Foreign bodyPantoea agglomeransVegetal traumaWound infectioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess