PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Helali, Abdulnasser
AU  - McAlear, Diane
AU  - Osoba, Abimbola
TI  - Leuconostoc bacteremia in a child with short-gut syndrome
DP  - 2005 Feb 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 311--313
VI  - 26
IP  - 2
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/26/2/311.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/26/2/311.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2005 Feb 01; 26
AB  - In the last decade Leuconostoc species have been reported with increasing frequency as human pathogens, causing bacteremia, meningitis and peritonitis. We report here a child with short-bowel syndrome who developed bacteremia following multiple surgeries for necrotizing enterocolitis. Leuconostoc species was isolated from the blood cultures. The child was successfully treated with ampicillin and gentamycin. He however remained total parenteral nutrition dependent due to his multiple abnormalities. We call the attention of microbiologists and pediatricians to this emerging pathogen, which is intrinsically resistant to vancomycin and can be misidentified in the microbiology laboratory as Viridans streptococci or Enterococci. Increased awareness by clinicians of this organism is called for, if it is to be recognized and appropriately treated.