2013, Cilt 43, Sayı 1, Sayfa(lar) 036-038 |
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An Intensive Care Unit Infection Due to Elizabethkingia meningoseptica |
Fulya BAYINDIR BİLMAN1, Mine TURHANOĞLU1, Şafak KAYA2 |
1Diyarbakır Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Mikrobiyoloji laboratuarı, Diyarbakır 2Diyarbakır Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları Kliniği, Diyarbakır |
Keywords: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, pneumonia, nosocomial |
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (Chryseobacterium meningosepticum) which is a gram negative bacillus found in soil, water, environmental surfaaces, and hospital environment, is known as a multi-drug resistant microorganism rarely leading to nosocomial infections. E. meningoseptica-associated outbreaks have been documented in neonatal units of the hospitals, and among imunosuppressed adult patients in intensive care units. An adult patient who was hospitalized due to subarachnoid hemorrhage in the neurosurgery intensive care unit, developed postoperative pneumonia and E. meningoseptica was isolated from the sputum culture. This case is reported to draw attention to this rare cause of nosocomial pneumonia in an intensive care unit.
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