TY - JOUR
T1 - Enterobacter sakazakii
T2 - A case of coincidental infantile sepsis
AU - Savage, Natasha
AU - Walker, Rebecca
AU - Steele, John
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Enterobacter sakazaki is a yellow-pigmented, motile, peritrichous, gram-negative bacilius that has been associated with sepsis, necrotizing' enterocolitis (NEC), meningitis, and brain abscesses in infants. Infants at greatest risk are those who are less than 28 days old (neonates), preterm, low-birth-weight, and immunocompromised. Here. we present a case of a 23-week gestational age neonate showing pneumatosis consistent with NEC on X-ray, whose blood cultures grew 2 morphotypes of E sakazakii. The patient eventually stabilized with resolution of the pneumatosis without surgical intervention for NEC.
AB - Enterobacter sakazaki is a yellow-pigmented, motile, peritrichous, gram-negative bacilius that has been associated with sepsis, necrotizing' enterocolitis (NEC), meningitis, and brain abscesses in infants. Infants at greatest risk are those who are less than 28 days old (neonates), preterm, low-birth-weight, and immunocompromised. Here. we present a case of a 23-week gestational age neonate showing pneumatosis consistent with NEC on X-ray, whose blood cultures grew 2 morphotypes of E sakazakii. The patient eventually stabilized with resolution of the pneumatosis without surgical intervention for NEC.
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U2 - 10.1309/LMHN30X6MFWMMBJV
DO - 10.1309/LMHN30X6MFWMMBJV
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:59849088195
SN - 0007-5027
VL - 39
SP - 658
EP - 660
JO - Laboratory medicine
JF - Laboratory medicine
IS - 11
ER -