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Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case
Sinem Gülcan Kersin1, Turgut Bozan2, Hülya Özdemir1
1Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Background:
Mycoplasma hominis is a well-known bacterium colonizing the genito-urinary tract. It may cause pneumonia, bacteremia, abscesses, chronic lung disease, and rarely meningitis during the newborn period.
Case:
A preterm infant with a birth weight of 885 grams was born at 27 weeks of gestation and had respiratory distress syndrome needing mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous intestinal perforation and grade four intraventricular hemorrhage was diagnosed on day three.
Conclusion:
M. hominis was accepted as the causative agent of meningitis in this case report.
