BACTEREMIA DUE TO PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA IN CHILDREN WITH AIDS

Six episodes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia in five children wit h AIDS were reviewed to characterize further the disease caused by thi s pathogen. Hypotension occurred in five episodes, and two children di ed. Bacteremia was associated most frequently with new pulmonary infil trates and skin lesions, but additional sites of infection were also o bserved (the middle ear, an abdominal abscess, and the CNS). None of t he children bad catheter-associated infection, and only three were neu tropenic. P. aeruginosa should be considered as a cause of sepsis in c hildren with AIDS.