Acute Bacterial Meningitis and Systemic Abscesses due toStreptococcus dysgalactiaesubsp.equisimilisInfection
| Autor: | M. Jourani, Philippe Hantson, Thierry Duprez, V. Roelants, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos |
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| Přispěvatelé: | UCL - (SLuc) Service de microbiologie, UCL - (SLuc) Service de soins intensifs, UCL - SSS/IONS/NEUR - Clinical Neuroscience, UCL - (SLuc) Département d'imagerie médicale |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Spondylodiscitis biology business.industry 030106 microbiology Case Report General Medicine medicine.disease Antimicrobial biology.organism_classification lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ventriculitis Medicine Endocarditis lcsh:RC109-216 Septic arthritis 030212 general & internal medicine business Streptococcus dysgalactiae Meningitis Pathogen |
| Zdroj: | Case reports in infectious diseases, Vol. 2017, p. 8645859 (2017) Case Reports in Infectious Diseases Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Vol. 2017, p. 1-4 (2017) Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Vol 2017 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2090-6633 2090-6625 |
| Popis: | Disseminated abscesses due to group Gβ-hemolyticStreptococcus dysgalactiaewere observed in a 57-year-old cirrhotic patient with the skin being the putative way of entry for the pathogen.S. dysgalactiaeis a rare agent in human infections responsible for acute pyogenic meningitis. The mortality rate associated withS. dysgalactiaebacteraemia and meningitis may be as high as 50%, particularly in the presence of endocarditis or brain abscesses. In our patient, main sites of infections were meningitis and ventriculitis, spondylodiscitis, septic arthritis, and soft-tissue infections. In contrast, no endocarditis was evidenced. Cirrhosis-related immune suppression was considered as a pathophysiological cofactor for the condition. Fortunately, clinical status improved after long-term (3 months) antimicrobial therapy. |
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