Affiliations: "Iatrikon Athinon" Medical Center, Athens,
Greece | National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, National
School of Public Health, Athens, Greece | Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller
School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33124, USA
Note: [] Correspondence: Prof. Maria Papapetropoulou, "Iatrikon
Athinon" Medical Center, Department of Microbiology, Distomou 5-7, Maroussi,
Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30 210 61 98 306; E-mail:
mpapapetro@hotmail.com; gtzanakaki@hsph.gr
Abstract: A case of a 5-year-old child with signs and symptoms of bacterial
meningitis was admitted to the "Iatrikon Athinon" Medical Center, Athens,
Greece. The isolated strain was identified as Neisseria lactamica.
Susceptibility to penicillin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, tetracycline,
sulfonamides, rifampicin, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin and chloramphenicol was
determined twice by E-test. The isolate was resistant to penicillin
(8 μg/mL) and erythromycin (64 μg/mL). Since antibiotic susceptibility testing revealed that the
isolate was resistant to penicillin, the patient was successfully treated with
ceftriaxone. This is a first report of a meningitis case due to
penicillin-resistant N. lactamica in Greece.
