GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL SEPSIS AND MENINGITIS COMPLICATED WITH SEVERE SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS IN A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacterial pathogen causing infections in neonates and very young infants. The clinical spectrum of GBS disease includes septicemia, meningitis, pneumonia, arthritis, osteomyelitis, urinary tract infection, sinusitis and skin and soft tissue infections. Recently increasing incidence of invasive GBS disease in nonpregnant adults has been reported. There is little information available on GBS infection in pediatric patients beyond early infancy. We report a case of GBS sepsis and meningitis in a previously well 14-year-old boy.