MORGANELLA-MORGANII - A NEWLY REPORTED, RARE CAUSE OF NEONATAL SEPSIS

This case report reviews the clinical course of an 11-day-old boy who developed late-onset neonatal sepsis secondary to a rare neonatal path ogen, Morganella morganii. This gram-negative enteric bacterium, withi n the Enterobacteriaceae family, has most commonly been a nosocomial p athogen in debilitated, postsurgical patients. Like many other Enterob acteriaceae, M. morganii has an inducible beta-lactamase and is resist ant to multiple antibiotics. When caring for neonates with culture-pro ven M. morganii sepsis, the authors recommend administering both a thi rd-generation cephalosporin and an aminoglycoside to ensure that both antibiotics are bactericidal and to reduce the induction of resistance .