부산대학교 도서관

Chryseobacterium meningosepticumis a lactose-nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli ubiquitously found in the natural and hospital environment. Clinical infection caused by C meningosepticumis very rare among healthy adults. We present the case of a patient with end-stage renal disease who developed purulent pericarditis with C meningosepticuminfection, which rapidly evolved into cardiac tamponade and death. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which C meningosepticumcaused fatal purulent pericarditis in a hemodialysis patient.