Chryseobacterium Indoloegenes Meningitis in a Patient with Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunt.

Chryseobacterium indologenes organism is mostly confined to water and soil and has been isolated from patients in hospitals with severe underlying disease with indwelling devices and implants. Despite its low virulence, it has been found to be inherently resistant to many antibiotics. A rare case of meningitis was reported by C. indologenes in an 18-year-old patient treated for hydrocephalous with meningitis with an indwelling ventriculoperitoneal shunt, who was successfully managed with levofloxacin and gentamicin and discharged. This case report describes identification and isolation of C. indologenes on the basis of biochemical and microbiological analysis along with clinical signs and symptoms of meningitis with an indwelling ventriculoperitoneal shunt.

P.vivax infection in a known case of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) – changing trends.

We report a case of P.vivax infection in a case of sickle cell anaemia. The patient was a known case of sickle cell anaemia and was admitted with chief complaints of Fever with chills and rigors since 4 to 5 days and investigations were sent in microbiology laboratory for detection of malarial antigen and he was found to be positive for P.vivax by both rapid test and Giemsa staining. It is thought that malaria is rare in patients of sickle cell anaemia as infected RBCs sickle and malarial parasites cannot survive in those RBCs.