Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report

Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella are rare, especially those produced by S. enteritidis. We describe the case of a 26-month-old girl who underwent surgery for a frontoparietal ependymoma and presented with epidural empyema and a brain abscess due to S. enteritidis following an episo...

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Autores principales: Blázquez, Daniel, Muñoz, Miriam, Gil, Celia, Ruibal, Jose Luis, El Knaichi, Firdaus, Aleo, Esther
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7131
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author Blázquez, Daniel
Muñoz, Miriam
Gil, Celia
Ruibal, Jose Luis
El Knaichi, Firdaus
Aleo, Esther
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Muñoz, Miriam
Gil, Celia
Ruibal, Jose Luis
El Knaichi, Firdaus
Aleo, Esther
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description Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella are rare, especially those produced by S. enteritidis. We describe the case of a 26-month-old girl who underwent surgery for a frontoparietal ependymoma and presented with epidural empyema and a brain abscess due to S. enteritidis following an episode of gastroenteritis. The child was successfully treated by surgical drainage along with 9 weeks of antibiotic therapy including ciprofloxacin.
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spelling pubmed-27402462009-10-14 Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report Blázquez, Daniel Muñoz, Miriam Gil, Celia Ruibal, Jose Luis El Knaichi, Firdaus Aleo, Esther Cases J Case report Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella are rare, especially those produced by S. enteritidis. We describe the case of a 26-month-old girl who underwent surgery for a frontoparietal ependymoma and presented with epidural empyema and a brain abscess due to S. enteritidis following an episode of gastroenteritis. The child was successfully treated by surgical drainage along with 9 weeks of antibiotic therapy including ciprofloxacin. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2740246/ /pubmed/19829916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7131 Text en © 2009 Blázquez et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Blázquez, Daniel
Muñoz, Miriam
Gil, Celia
Ruibal, Jose Luis
El Knaichi, Firdaus
Aleo, Esther
Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_full Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_fullStr Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_short Brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
title_sort brain abscess and epidural empyema caused by salmonella enteritidis in a child: successful treatment with ciprofloxacin: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7131
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