Successful eradication of Flavobacterium meningosepticum neonatal meningitis with ceftizoxime.

Flavobacterium meningosepticum is a gram negative, opportunistic organism which has been implicated in a number of outbreaks of sepsis and meningitis in newborn nurseries. The infection is usually associated with a very high mortality. F. meningosepticum is usually resistant to most of the commonly used antibiotics and successful therapy has posed problems. We present a case report of F. meningosepticum meningitis caused by a multiply drug resistant strain of the organism.