SEPTICEMIA AND MENINGITIS DUE TO STREPTOCOCCUS-ZOOEPIDEMICUS

A case of septicemia and meningitis due to Streptococcus zooepidemicus in an immunocompetent patient is reported. This organism is an uncomm on human pathogen that sometimes causes severe infection, usually in i mmunocompromised patients. In the reported case, the patient required to be mechanically ventilated for one week and was treated with intrav enous ampicillin and gentamicin. He recovered and was discharged from hospital three weeks after the initial presentation. Streptococcus zoo epidemicus sensitive to all penicillins, was isolated from all blood c ultures and the cerebrospinal fluid.