An 11-year-old patient with cervical lymphadenitis caused by group B streptococci
Özet
Colonizing the gastrointestinal and genitourinary system, group B streptococcus (GBS) causes focal and systemic infections in infants in the first 3 months of life and in pregnant women and elderly people. GBS, less frequently, emerges as an infectious agent among children and adults with facilitating factors, like immunosuppression, malignancy, immune deficiency, and chronic liver and kidney failure. In this article, an 11-year-old child with cervical lymphadenitis due to GBS who had no concomitant disease or immunosuppression is presented. © 2014 by Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
