Community-acquired Pseudomonas sepsis in previously healthy infants.

Through a retrospective study, five Pseudomonas sepsis cases were collected between 1988 and 1994 in the Department of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases CH, Casablanca (Morocco). We describe clinical, biological and therapeutic data. Mean age was 6 months. Ecthyma was present in all the patients. Pseud omonas aeruginosa was isolated in all the patients in blood and twice in ce rebrospinal fluid. It was always sensitive to ceftazidime and it was not su sceptible to gentamycin except in once case. Three deaths occurred by septi c shock. Severe prognosis incites recognition of ecthyma for an early diagn osis and adapted treatment.