A Case of Neonatal Sepsis due to Listeria monocytogenes Serotype 4b: Case report and literature review
Listeria monocytogenes has been often leads to infection in pregnant women, newborns and patients with impaired immune response. Serotypes 1/2a, 1/2b and 4b are re - sponsible on majority of human infections and outbreaks of food. The girl baby was born from twenty years old, primiparous moth...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dicle University Medical School
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Dicle Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.diclemedj.org/upload/sayi/33/Dicle%20Med%20J-02172.pdf |
| Summary: | Listeria monocytogenes
has been often leads to infection
in pregnant women, newborns and patients with impaired
immune response. Serotypes 1/2a, 1/2b and 4b are re
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sponsible on majority of human infections and outbreaks
of food. The girl baby was born from twenty years old,
primiparous mothers at term with normal birth weight in
our hospital. She was brought with to the pediatric emer
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gency department with fever, groaning, sucking, bruising
and complaints on the second day of the birth. Ampicillin
and cefotaxime was started to patient with diagnosis of
early-onset neonatal sepsis. First blood culture sample of
the patient were positive on the second day of incuba
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tion. Then, Gram-positive bacilli were seen in gram stain.
It was made identification of bacteria in two different au
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tomated systems (Phoenix and VITEK).We believed that
this case is important in the way of case of neonatal sep
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sis with
Listeria monocytogenes
serotype 4b that firstly
ever reported in Turkey. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-2945 1308-9889 |