NEONATE WITH PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX – A STITCH IN TIME

Abstract

As rightly said, a stitch in time saves nine. On 22 November 2022, a neonate was brought by his parents to emergency department of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore, on third day of his life with symptoms of breathlessness for last two days and poor feeding for last one day. Baby was delivered by emergency Cesarean-section owing to premature rupture of membranes at 38 weeks of gestation, at a private medical center at Borewala, Punjab and the Apgar Score was 10/10. The diversity of etiology of neonatal respiratory distress paused a greater challenge for targeted management. Along with various radiological and laboratory investigations, single blood culture specimen taken by the microbiology team at CMH Lahore, timely and rightly identified the causative pathogen Burkholderia cepacia complex. Neonate was treated according to Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing (AST) given and was discharged from hospital as a healthy baby.