| sepsis with citrobacter diversus in sick newborns. | citrobacter diversus has been increasingly recognized as a cause of life-threatening neonatal meningitis with frequent abscess formation. this condition is associated with high mortality and extremely poor prognosis. we report our experience with c. diversus septicemia without meningitis in critically ill newborns. thirteen patients with mean birthweight 1530 +/- 925 gm and mean gestational age 31.3 +/- 3.5 weeks were affected. they were compared with a group of infants affected by escherichia c ... | 1989 | 2910319 |