title: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: Emergent bacteria causing pneumonia in a critically ill child.
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.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Hospital Brigadeiro, São Paulo, Brazil. psls.nat@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Paulo Sergio Lucas
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Graziella Hanna
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002675:Child, Preschool; D045247:Chryseobacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016638:Critical Illness; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents