Table 1. Characteristics of Elizabethkingia cases in children admitted to the Children’s Intensive Care Unit, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, May 2017*.

Category	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3
Sample date	2017 May 15	2017 May 22	2017 May 28
Sample type	ETT, BBS	ETT, BBS	ETT, BBS
Bacterial identification
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry	E. meningoseptica	E. meningoseptica	E. meningoseptica
16S rDNA	Isolate not available	Isolate not available	E. anophelis
Sex	M	F	F
Age, mo	4.9	2.8	57.9
Preterm birth	No	No	No
Underlying clinical condition	Duodenal atresia; small atrial septal heart defect	Pulmonary atresia; Large ventral septal heart defect; large patent ductus arteriosus	Thoracic tumor
Outcome	Discharged	Discharged	Deceased
Days in hospital	11	83	33
CICU bed type	Single room	4-bed cubicle	Single room
Other beds used	No	No	No
Antimicrobial drug treatment within 72 h before detection	Piperacillin/tazobactam, ceftriaxone	Clindamycin	Piperacillin/tazobactam
History of immunosuppressive medication	No	No	Yes (chemotherapy)
On ECMO at time of detection	Yes	No	Yes

*ETT, endotracheal tube; CICU, Children’s Intensive Care Unit; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; ETT, endotracheal tube; MALDI-TOF, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight.