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Chryseobacterium meningosepticum

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Chryseobacterium meningosepticum
Flavobacterium meningosepticum, CDC group IIa Bacteriology A bacterium of soil, water, plants, foods, hospital water–incubators, tap water, hemodialysis systems, pharmaceuticals Mode of transmission Uncertain, but probably linked to contaminated medical devices and fluids; occasionally transmitted via the birth canal to neonate Clinical Bacteremia, neonatal meningitis, rarely adult meningitis; may be found in mixed wound infections, ocular infections, URIs, UTIs, sinusitis, endocarditis, peritonitis, fasciitis
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Fluid from the patient's knee joint grew Chryseobacterium meningosepticum -- a germ never previously linked to tissue or organ transplants.
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From 1996 to 1999, 17 culture-documented systemic infections due to novel, atypical strains of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum occurred in two newborns and 15 immunocompromised patients in a medical center in Taiwan.
Atypical Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Meningitis and Sepsis ... by Carnahan, Amy M. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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