Sood Smita, Vaid Vivek Kumar, Bhartiya Hemant
Microbiologist, Department of Laboratory Medicine, (SRL Ltd.), Fortis Escorts Hospital , Jaipur, India .
J Clin Diagn Res. 2013 Aug;7(8):1696-7. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5614.3248. Epub 2013 Aug 1.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic, glucose non- fermentative, gram negative bacillus, which is being increasingly recognized as a cause of serious infections such as bacteraemia, urinary tract infections, respiratory tract infections, skin and soft tissue infections, endocarditis, meningitis and ocular infections in hospitalized patients. The treatment of invasive S. maltophilia infections is difficult, as this pathogen shows high levels of intrinsic or acquired resistance to different antibiotics, thus reducing the options which are available for treatment. Meningitiscaused by S. maltophilia is rarely encountered and so its experience is also limited. We are describing here a case of a six months old, male child who developed meningitis caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, after he underwent a neurosurgical procedure.
嗜麦芽窄食单胞菌是一种需氧、不发酵葡萄糖的革兰氏阴性杆菌，越来越多地被认为是住院患者严重感染的病因，如菌血症、尿路感染、呼吸道感染、皮肤和软组织感染、心内膜炎、脑膜炎和眼部感染。侵袭性嗜麦芽窄食单胞菌感染的治疗很困难，因为这种病原体对不同抗生素表现出高度的固有或获得性耐药性，从而减少了可用于治疗的选择。由嗜麦芽窄食单胞菌引起的脑膜炎很少见，因此相关经验也有限。我们在此描述一例六个月大的男童，在接受神经外科手术后发生了由嗜麦芽窄食单胞菌引起的脑膜炎。
