Volume 6, Number 5—October 2000
Research
Atypical Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Meningitis and Sepsis in Newborns and the Immunocompromised, Taiwan
Table 1
Clinical features of patients
Infection | Age | Underlying disease(s) | Source of cultures | Date of isolation |
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Neonatal diseases | ||||
Sepsis, meningitis | 3D | None | Blood, CSF | 09/13/1996 |
Sepsis, meningitis | 2D | None | Blood, CSF | 01/24/1999 |
Community-acquired infection | ||||
Sepsis | 65Y | Cirrhosis of the liver | Blood | 12/04/1997 |
Sepsis | 68Y | Congestive heart failure | Blood | 08/09/1997 |
Sepsis | 7Y | IgA nephropathy | Blood | 02/11/1998 |
Sepsis, cellulitis | 84Y | Hypertension | Blood | 04/06/1997 |
Sepsis | 24Y | Aplastic anemia | Blood | 03/11/1999 |
Sepsis | 43Y | Chronic renal failure | Blood | 04/10/1997 |
Hospital-acquired infection | ||||
Sepsis | 18Y | Acute lymphocytic leukemia | Blood | 06/01/1997 |
Sepsis | 62Y | Cirrhosis of the liver | Blood | 02/05/1999 |
Sepsis, wound infection | 49Y | Burn | Blood, wound | 06/29/1997 |
Sepsis, wound infection | 37Y | Burn | Blood, wound | 11/13/1997 |
Sepsis | 42Y | Common bile duct cancer | Blood | 10/10/1997 |
Sepsis | 84Y | Brain infarction | Blood | 05/24/1997 |
Sepsis | 72Y | Myocardial infarction | Blood | 08/17/1998 |
Sepsis | 19Y | Pelvic fracture | Blood | 03/10/1998 |
Sepsis | 68Y | Tuberculosis | Blood | 03/20/1998 |
Y= years; D = days; CSF = cerebrospinal fluid