Case Report

Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens

Volume: 66 Number: 3 November 13, 2014
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Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens

Abstract

Serratias are opportunistic, gram negative aerobic bacteria. They lead to bactremia lower respiratory tract infections, surgical wound, skin and soft tissue infections, and are responsible from 2 % of nosocomial infections. Serratia marcescens is the most common (97%) isolated pathogen among Serratia species, while Serratia liquefaciens (S.liquefaciens) is the second most common pathogenic organism with 2%. Its infection frequency in the neonatal intensive care units is not known. This pathogen, which is very rarely reported in the medical literature, shown to be a cause of severe mortality and morbidity in newborns. To the best of our knowledge, up to now only five newborn cases have been reported in the literature, of whom one died due to meningitis. A - 3560 g – term infant was admited to our neonatal intensive care unit for respiratory insufficiency and received respiratory support for 2 days. On postnatal 10th day, she presented with fever which was accompanied with elevated acute phase reactants and severe thrombocytopenia. Antibiotic (vancomycin and meropenem) combination was begun after collected cultures from blood, cerebrospinal fluid and urine. She had to receive thrombocyte suspension for 5 days. Blood culture was reported as growth of S.liquefaciens (sensitive to amikacin, ertapenem, gentamicin, imipenem, piperacilin-tazobactam and ciprofloxacin, resistant to ampicillin, colistin, cefalotin and tetracycline). The patient was discharged after completed meropenem treatment for 14 days. S.liquefaciens was never detected as a causative agent for sepsis in our unit, and it was treated with meropenem therapy successfully without any morbidity. Here, we aimed to report a neonatal sepsis case due to this very rare pathogen, S.liquefaciens, and review the literature

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Neonatology

Journal Section

Case Report

Publication Date

November 13, 2014

Submission Date

July 19, 2013

Acceptance Date

April 22, 2014

Published in Issue

Year 2013 Volume: 66 Number: 3

APA
Çakır, U., Alan, S., Yıldız, D., Kahvecioğlu, D., Erdeve, Ö., Atasay, B., Aysev, A. D., & Arsan, S. (2014). Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, 66(3), 115-117. https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA
AMA
1.Çakır U, Alan S, Yıldız D, et al. Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası. 2014;66(3):115-117. https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA
Chicago
Çakır, Ufuk, Serdar Alan, Duran Yıldız, et al. 2014. “Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 66 (3): 115-17. https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA.
EndNote
Çakır U, Alan S, Yıldız D, Kahvecioğlu D, Erdeve Ö, Atasay B, Aysev AD, Arsan S (November 1, 2014) Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 66 3 115–117.
IEEE
[1]U. Çakır et al., “Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens”, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 115–117, Nov. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA
ISNAD
Çakır, Ufuk - Alan, Serdar - Yıldız, Duran - Kahvecioğlu, Dilek - Erdeve, Ömer - Atasay, Begüm - Aysev, Ahmet Derya - Arsan, Saadet. “Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 66/3 (November 1, 2014): 115-117. https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA.
JAMA
1.Çakır U, Alan S, Yıldız D, Kahvecioğlu D, Erdeve Ö, Atasay B, Aysev AD, Arsan S. Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası. 2014;66:115–117.
MLA
Çakır, Ufuk, et al. “Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, vol. 66, no. 3, Nov. 2014, pp. 115-7, https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA.
Vancouver
1.Ufuk Çakır, Serdar Alan, Duran Yıldız, Dilek Kahvecioğlu, Ömer Erdeve, Begüm Atasay, Ahmet Derya Aysev, Saadet Arsan. Yenidoğan Sepsisinde Çok Nadir Bir Etken: Serratia Liquefaciens. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası [Internet]. 2014 Nov. 1;66(3):115-7. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA66AW85MA