Bacteremia due to Neisseria cinerea: report of two cases.
We report two cases of bacteremia due to Neisseria cinerea. One was a 2.5-yr-old boy with otitis media and pneumonia, who responded to treatment with amoxicillin. The other was a 47-yr-old man with underlying ethanol abuse who developed severe polymicrobial sepsis due to apparent intraabdominal disease. This man died despite extensive antimicrobial therapy.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009343:Neisseria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*