Salmonella brain abscess in an infant

Autor: Anjali Swami, Seema Oommen, Badhuli Samal, Madhavi Maskey, Jayanthi Shastri
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology. 52:269
ISSN: 0377-4929
Popis: Brain abscess is an uncommon and serious life-threatening infection in children. Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella spp. in this age group are also rare. We report the case of a 4-month-old male infant with a frontoparietal brain abscess caused by Salmonella typhimurium , the presence of which was not suspected clinically.
Databáze: OpenAIRE