Septicemia Due to Multidrug Resistant Elizabethkingia Meningoseptica: An Emerging Nosocomial Pathogen In India

• Main Authors: B. Appalaraju, M. Dheepa, Marina Thomas, J. Krishnaveni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: JCDR Research and Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2013-01-01
• Series: National Journal of Laboratory Medicine
• Subjects: elizabethkingia meningoseptica; septicaemia; nosocomial pathogen; vitek 2c
• Online Access: http://www.njlm.net/articles/PDF/1972/5583_E(C)_PF1(PU)_F(H)_PF1(PH)_PFA(H)_PFA2(H).pdf

Elizabethkingia Meningoseptica is a gram-negative bacillus that is known to cause meningitis in premature neonates, and a variety of infections in immunocompromised adults. We are presenting the case of a 37 year old patient with an ileal perforation, in whom an ileostomy was done. He was on a ventilator for eleven days in the ICU and he developed septicaemia due to this organism. It is important that clinicians consider Elizabethkingia Meningoseptica also as a rare cause of septicaemia. The patient was successfully treated with levofloxacin, with a good clinical outcome.