Premium
Chryseobacterium meningosepticum in a parapneumonic effusion in a chronic kidney disease patient on hemodialysis
Author(s) -
Gnanasoundran Vanitha,
Fernando M Edwin,
Kumar Senthil,
Kumar Raj,
Valavan Thiruma,
Mohan Chandra,
Mohammed Noor,
Prasad Srinivasa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
hemodialysis international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.658
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1542-4758
pISSN - 1492-7535
DOI - 10.1111/hdi.12160
Subject(s) - medicine , chryseobacterium , pleural effusion , hemodialysis , parapneumonic effusion , kidney disease , pneumonia , antibiotics , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pleural fluid , bacteria , genetics , biology , 16s ribosomal rna
Abstract Chryseobacterium meningosepticum is an uncommon human pathogen, which is an inhabitant of soil and water. It should be included in the list of suspected nosocomial infections, especially in patients with immunocompromised status. C . meningosepticum infections are not common but are clinically important because the organism is naturally resistant to multiple antibiotics. We report a case where the bacterium was isolated from the pleural fluid from a chronic kidney disease patient on hemodialysis, who developed pneumonia with complicated parapneumonic effusion. To the best of our knowedge, this is the first case where C . meningosepticum is isolated from the pleural effusion, from I ndia.