Ohkusu K, Nakamura A, Horie H, Udagawa A
Division of Clinical Laboratory, Chiba Children's Hospital, Chiba-city, Japan.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Sep;20(9):914-5. doi: 10.1097/00006454-200109000-00020.
We describe a 4-year-old boy with Cornelia de Lange syndrome who died of septic shock caused by Moraxella catarrhalis bacteremia. At autopsy there was evidence of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis with abscesses. Gram-negative diplococci were seen histologically in the abscesses and pancreatic ducts.