Antibiotic pressure mediated selection of non-biofilm forming strain of Elizabethkingia meningosepticum causing fatal nosocomial meningitis in a term infant

• Egile Nagusiak: Sumit Rai (Egilea), Devendra Kumar Niranjan (Egilea), Prakash Mishra (Egilea), Narendra Pal Singh (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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We describe a fatal case of hospital acquired meningitis in a term infant due to the antibiotic pressure mediated selection of Elizabethkingia meningosepticum. The antibiotics were administered for multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection. The strain was also phenotypically characteriz...