Neonates and individuals who are immunocompromised are at risk for developing meningitis if they contract which organism?

a. Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
b. Myroides odoratus
c. Sphingobacterium spp.
d. Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion (CDC) group EO-3


A
This life-threatening infection, which may be accompanied by bacteremia, originally gained at-tention because it occurred in neonates. However, E. meningoseptica meningitis can also occur in adults who are immunocompromised. The organism has been implicated in hospital-based outbreaks of both meningitis and pneumonia.

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