Pulmonary crepitations: a clue in the diagnosis of pulmonary interstitial emphysema?

✍ Scribed by R. A. A. Pelleboer; H. M. Berger

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 148
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00441826

✦ Synopsis

of the infants, both of whom were asymptomatic, were positive for C. fetus, but none from the staff members. Fifty samples were taken from environmental surfaces on 25 September, but all were negative on culture for C. fetus.

Campylobacter jejuni has been reported to cause nosocomial infection in neonates [1-3]. The clinical picture of neonatal C. jejuni infection is usually that of a benign, self-limited, nonfebrile diarrhoeal illness [3] and may sometimes be completely asymptomatic [2]. Nevertheless Goossens et al. [1] reported an outbreak of C. jejuni meningitis in newborn infants, showing that C. jejuni can cause serious nosocomial infection. To our knowledge, however, no reports of nosocomial neonatal infection due to C.fetus have been published. Our experience indicates that C. fetus can cause nosocomial meningitis in neonates and asymptomatic carriers may play a role in transmission of the organism.