• Juan Camilo Motta, Enrique Ucros, Mariana Reyes Rey, Paula Daniela Gómez, and Magda Sánchez.
• Especialización en Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: juan.motta@urosario.edu.co.
• Med Clin (Barc). 2022 Jan 7; 158 (1): 20-23.

IntroductionRaoultella spp. is a gram-negative bacillus with increasing clinical importance due to the development of multi-drug resistance and because it has been reported as a cause of invasive infection. The risk of infection increases if comorbidities present such as diabetes mellitus and malignancies.MethodsDescriptive study of clinical and microbiological characteristics in adult patients with Raoultella spp. isolation, treated at a fourth-level hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, between 2015 and 2020.Results61 patients with isolation of Raoultella spp., 51 were considered infection and 10, colonization. The associated comorbidities were hypertension (n=26, 42.6%), heart failure (n=19, 31.1%) and diabetes mellitus (n=18, 29.5%). AmpC resistance patterns were found in 10 samples (16.4%) and KPC in 3 (4.9%).ConclusionsRaoultella spp. is of clinical importance due to its isolation in immunocompromised patients with multiple comorbidities and due to the increase in multi-resistant strains.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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