Paenibacillus Sepsis and Meningitis in a Premature Infant
Autor: | Rachel Martin Blais, Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, Brice Hunt, Christopher Rogers, Kristina Adachi |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Brain Infarction
Meningitis Bacterial Pathology and Forensic Medicine Microbiology Sepsis 03 medical and health sciences Paenibacillus 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Premature neonate biology Genus Paenibacillus business.industry Infant Newborn food and beverages Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Infant mortality Heart Arrest Bacteremia Hypoxia-Ischemia Brain Female business Meningitis Infant Premature |
Zdroj: | American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 42:96-98 |
ISSN: | 1533-404X 0195-7910 |
Popis: | Infections due to bacteria of the genus Paenibacillus are exceedingly rare and therefore predominately described on a case-by-case basis. Here, we present a case of a 25-day-old premature neonate who died from presumed Paenibacillus sepsis and meningitis. Most prior reported cases of Paenibacillus bacteremia were among patients who had prosthetic medical devices, were immunocompromised, or were injection drug users. However, to our knowledge, this is the first reported case of infant death from presumed Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus. This case suggests the potential for severe human infection by an environmental bacterium previously considered to be of little consequence. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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