Enterobacter sakazakii: an emerging foodborne pathogenic bacterium

Annals of Microbiology

Table 1 Cases of E. sakazakii infection in neonates and infants (1961–2009)

year of report	No. of cases	No. of deaths	Symptoms	Source	References
1961	2	2	Meningitis	Unknown	Urmenyi and Franklin (1961)
1965	1	Unknown	Meningitis	Unknown	Joker et al. (1965)
1979	1	0	Bacteremia	Unknown	Monroe and Tift (1979)
1981	1	Unknown	Meningitis, sepsis	Unknown	Adamson and Rogers (1981)
1981	1	0	Meningitis	Unknown	Kleiman et al. (1981)
1983	8	6	Meningitis	PIF	Muytjens et al. (1983)
1984	NS	NS	NS	NS	Postupa and Aldova (1984)
1985	1	0	Meningitis	Unknown	Naqvi et al. (1985)
1987	11	5	Meningitis and sepsis	Unknown	Arseni et al. (1987)
1988	2	0	Meningitis	Unknown	Willis and Robinson (1988)
1989	3	1	Meningitis	PIF	Biering et al. (1989)
1989	2	2	Appendicitis, conjunctivitis	NS	Reina et al. (1989)
1989	4	0	Meningitis	Unknown	Lecour et al. (1989)
1989	1	0	Sepsis, diarrhoea	PIF	Simmons et al. (1989)
1990	4	NS	Septicemia	PIF	Clark et al. (1990)
1990	1	0	Bacteremia	PIF	Noriega et al. (1990)
1991	NS	NS	Meningitis	NS	Gallaghar and Ball (1991)
1994	1	NS	Necrotising enterocolitis	Unknown	Chan et al. (1994)
1994	1	0	Meningitis	Unknown	Reis et al. (1994)
1996	1	0	wound infection	Unknown	Tekkok et al. (1996)
2000	1	0	Meningitis	NS	Burdette and Santos (2000)
2001	12	0	Enterocolitis	PIF	Van Acker et al. (2001)
2001	2	0	Bacteremia, meningitis	PIF	Bar-Oz et al. (2001)
2001	1	0	Bacteremia	NS	Lai (2001)
2002	NS	NS	NS	PIF	Block et al. (2002)
2002	11	1	Meningitis, enterocolitis	PIF	Himelright et al. (2002)
2004	2	NS	NS	NS	Coignard et al. (2004)
2005	2	-	-	-	Unpublished data
2007	2	1	Respiratory distress, sepsis	PIF	Ray et al. (2007)
2009	1	0	Urinary tract infection	NS	Bhat et al. (2009)

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