Agranulocytosis caused by spironolactone.

Abstract

resembling those of gonococcaemia.'There have also been reports from the United States of a child with leukaemia who had bacteraemia, arthritis, and skin lesions due to K kingae3 and another child with moraxella endocarditis.4The organism may enter the bloodstream from the respiratory tract.5 Kingella, Moraxella, and Neisseria genera all belong to the Neisseriaceae family, and all can cause disseminated infection with similar clinical manifestations.We thank Miss J Midgley of the microbiology department at this hospital