MULTIPLE CEREBRAL INFARCTIONS IN A PREMAT URE BABY WITH MENINGITIS DUE TO ENTEROBACTER-SAKAZAKII LEADING TO MULTICYSTIC ENCEPHALOMALACIA

Enterobacter sakazakii is an uncommon cause of neonatal meningitis. Th e prognosis of newborns with meningitis due to Enterobacter sakazakii is poor, the fatality rate is reported as high as 50%. Survivors usual ly have severe neurologic complications. Most computed tomography (CT) findings were low density lesions of white matter und cortex suggesti ng infarctions which underwent cystic degeneration. We present one pre mature baby with meningitis due to Enterobacter sakazakii and large bi lateral regions of hypo- and hyperdensity suggesting massive hemorrhag ic and nonhemorrhagic intracerebral infarctions leading to multiple cy stic encephalomalacia.