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Atypical <i>Chryseobacterium meningosepticum</i> and Meningitis and Sepsis in Newborns and the Immunocompromised, Taiwan
1 Oct 2000
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From 1996 to 1999, 17 culture-documented systemic infections due to novel, atypical strains of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum occurred in two newborns and 15 immunocompromised patients in a medical center in Taiwan. All clinical isolates, which were initially misidentified as Aeromonas salmonicida by an automated bacterial identification system, were resistant to a number of antimicrobial agents. The isolates...
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