Culture-negative neonatal meningitis and endocarditis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae

Valérie Lefranc Nègre; Anne-Marie Colin-Gorski; Suzel Magnier; Lydia Maisonneuve; Yannick Aujard; Edouard Bingen; Stéphane Bonacorsi

doi:10.1128/JCM.42.10.4889-4890.2004

Culture-negative neonatal meningitis and endocarditis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae

J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Oct;42(10):4889-90. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.10.4889-4890.2004.

Authors

Valérie Lefranc Nègre¹, Anne-Marie Colin-Gorski, Suzel Magnier, Lydia Maisonneuve, Yannick Aujard, Edouard Bingen, Stéphane Bonacorsi

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire d'Etudes de Génétique Bactérienne dans les Infections de L'Enfant, Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, France.

Abstract

We describe a case of culture-negative meningitis and endocarditis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae in a 27-day-old boy. S. agalactiae was detected in cerebrospinal fluid and serum by broad-spectrum PCR amplification.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Blood / microbiology
Cerebrospinal Fluid / microbiology
Culture Media
DNA, Bacterial / analysis
Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Male
Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
Streptococcal Infections / microbiology
Streptococcus agalactiae / genetics*
Streptococcus agalactiae / isolation & purification*

Substances

Culture Media
DNA, Bacterial