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An infant with late onset Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus meningitis by possible horizontal transmission between mother and infant: a case report

Erika KAMIYAMA1), Yuriha KASAI1), Tamaki IKUSE1), Tomohiro IWASAKI1), Ken HISATA1), Toshiaki SHIMIZU1)

Streptococcus bovis, biotype II/2 was renamed Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus as a Group D Streptococci in 2003, according to biochemical classification. The number of invasive infections due to this organism in neonates and infants have risen in recent years. This paper reports a 39-day-old boy, who was under inpatient management in a neonate intensive care unit for prematurity and low birth weight, with bacterial meningitis due to S. gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus. Given that the same microorganism was detected later on a maternal vaginal culture, horizontal transmission between mother and infant was suggested as the route of infection in this case. The main route of S. gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus transmission is unclear. This article reports the first case of S. gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus detection from both infant and mother, and reviews the results of previous reports on S. gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus infection.


1) Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine

Key words bacterial meningitis, Group D Streptococci, Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus, horizontal transmission
Received November 17, 2020
Accepted March 24, 2021

33 (2):127─132,2021

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