Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: Emergent bacteria causing pneumonia in a critically ill child |
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Authors: | Paulo Sergio Lucas da Silva Graziella Hanna Pereira |
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Affiliation: | 1. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit;2. Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Hospital Brigadeiro, S?o Paulo, Brazil |
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Abstract: | Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is an unusual, highly resistant, gram‐ negative bacillus. While E. meningoseptica–associated meningitis outbreaks have been well‐documented in hospital neonatal wards and among immunocompromised adults, reports describing this microorganism in critically ill children are scarce. The purpose of this report was to describe a case of a 3 year‐old girl who developed pneumonia caused by E. meningoseptica in the setting of previous use of broad‐spectrum antibiotics and to review the pediatric literature regarding this pathogen. |
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Keywords: | children Chryseobacterium meningosepticum Elizabethkingia meningoseptica multidrug‐resistant pediatric intensive care unit pneumonia |
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