A systematic review of reported symptomatic Elizabethkingia infection cases in children and adults

• Published in: Acta tropica Vol. 263; p. 107544
• Main Authors: Jiang, Bowen, Zhang, Wenping, Deng, Ning, Li, Gang, Ren, Chao, Sun, Fang, Wang, Xiaojun, Xi, Shaohu, Wei, Shijie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.03.2025
• Subjects: Adult; adults; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotic resistance; cardiovascular diseases; Child; Child, Preschool; diabetes; Elizabethkingia; Emerging infectious diseases; Flavobacteriaceae - classification; Flavobacteriaceae - isolation & purification; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - diagnosis; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - drug therapy; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - epidemiology; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - microbiology; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - mortality; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - pathology; human diseases; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; mortality; Neonatal meningitis; patients; species; species identification; Systematic review; therapeutics; Treatment Outcome; Systematic review; Elizabethkingia; Neonatal meningitis; Emerging infectious diseases; Antibiotic resistance

•Summarizing clinical data on Elizabethkingia infections in neonates, children, and adults.•Identifying Elizabethkingia anophelis as the species with the highest reported mortality rate.•Highlighting better recovery rates in neonates (100 %) and infants (85.72 %) compared to adults.•Demonstrating th...