Neisseria cinerea is an organism that has only recently been implicated as a human pathogen. In this case, N. cinerea was identified as the cause of ophthalmia neonatorum (conjunctivitis) in a 2-day-old girl. Neisseria cinerea, although first recognized in Europe in 1906, was not described in the United States until 1984 (8).
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