Rare Elizabethkingia meningosepticum meningitis case in an immunocompetent adult.
Emerg Microbes Infect 2013;
2:e17. [PMID:
26038458 PMCID:
PMC3636594 DOI:
10.1038/emi.2013.16]
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Abstract
Though Elizabethkingia meningosepticum typically causes meningitis in neonates, its occurrence in adult is rare, with sixteen cases described worldwide. We report a case of E. meningosepticum meningitis in an immunocompetent adult. Bacterial identification was made a day earlier than conventional method by using matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) Vitek mass spectrometry RUO (VMS), which resulted in successful treatment with rifampin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, levofloxacin and minocycline.
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