Septicemia due to Neisseria lactamica

Abstract

Neisseria lactamica was isolated from the blood of a pediatric patient who had signs of septicemia and otitis media. Organisms morphologically resembling Neisseria, as well as gram-positive cocci, were seen on a Gram stain of fluid from the middle ear. It is hypothesized that the N. lactamica septicemia was secondary to infection of the middle ear by this organism.

Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infections

“…Heart Endocarditis [135,136] Blood Septicemia [137] Bone Osteomyelitis [138] N. flava Heart Rheumatic heart disease/ventricular septaldefect/endocarditis [139] Endocarditis [140] Blood Sepsis/conjunctival petechia [139] N. flavescens Heart Endocarditis [141,142] Brain Meningitis [143,144] Blood Septicemia [145,146] Lung Pneumonia/empyema [147] Genitourinary tract Genital infections [148] N. lactamica Brain Meningitis [149,150] Blood Septicemia [145,151] Pharynx Pharyngitis [152] Lung Cavitary lesion [153] Pneumonia [154] Genitourinary tract Genital infections [129,155,156] N. mucosa Heart Endocarditis [157][158][159] Brain Meningitis [160,161] Blood Septicemia [145,162] Lung Empyema [163] Genitourinary tract Genital infections [129] Urinary infection [164] Viscera Botryomycosis [165] Joints Arthritis [166,167] N. oralis Bladder Cystitis [168] Gingiva Healthy gingival plaque/subgingival oral biofilm [169] Blood (Insufficient clinical data) [169] Urinary tract (Insufficient clinical data)…”

“…other than N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae identified as causing meningitis include N. flavescens [143,144], N. lactamica [149,150], N. mucosa [160,161], N. sicca [177,178], and N. subflava [185][186][187]. Moreover, several non-gonococcal, non-meningococcal Neisseria species have been isolated from blood cultures, many of which have been associated with infections including endocarditis (see above, Section 4.1), septicemia and meningitis [124,127,128,137,139,145,146,151,162,169,186,190] (Table 1).…”