Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia with hypernatremic seizure in an infant with severe pneumonia: an uncommon but life threatening disease treated in a critical care ward in Bangladesh

Authors

  • - Sharifuzzaman International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka
  • Mohammod Jobayer Chisti International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka
  • Dilruba Ahmed Laboratory Services and sciences Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Syeda Umme Habiba Wahid Laboratory Services and sciences Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Tuhin Sadique Laboratory Services and sciences Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Razib Mazumder Laboratory Services and sciences Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Mohammad Anowar Hossain Laboratory Services and sciences Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury Infectious Diseases Division, icddr,b, Dhaka
  • Abdullah Al Maruf Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital, Moulvibazar, Sylhet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bccj.v4i1.27977

Keywords:

Children, seizure, Diarrhea, Hypernatremia, Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia, pneumonia

Abstract

A 8 months old mildly underweight baby girl was initially admitted at the Short Stay Ward of Dhaka hospital of icddr,b with acute watery diarrhea. On the next day she was transferred to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the same hospital for convulsion. After exclusion of potential differentials of convulsion, hypernatremia was added as new problem. She was treated for AWD and hypernatremic convulsion at the ICU following standard hospital protocol. She had also found to have pneumonia (confirmed by radiological evidence) which eventually improved with second line of antibiotics. Finally she found to have Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia which was improved with the ongoing treatment of pneumonia. We report Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia as the 1st case in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Crit Care J March 2016; 4 (1): 38-40

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- Sharifuzzaman, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka



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Published

2016-06-01

How to Cite

Sharifuzzaman, .-., Chisti, M. J., Ahmed, D., Wahid, S. U. H., Sadique, T., Mazumder, R., Hossain, M. A., Chowdhury, N. J., & Maruf, A. A. (2016). Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia with hypernatremic seizure in an infant with severe pneumonia: an uncommon but life threatening disease treated in a critical care ward in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, 4(1), 38–40. https://doi.org/10.3329/bccj.v4i1.27977

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Case Reports

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