Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae

Cerebritis is part of a continuum of brain infection and is difficult to diagnose. Cerebritis caused by Klebsiella in immunocompetent adults without predisposing factors such as neurosurgery or penetrating brain injury has not been reported before. We report a case of Klebsiella cerebritis in an adu...

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Autores principales: Majumdar, Mainak, Simes1, David C., Prabha1, Ramesh D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53116
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author Majumdar, Mainak
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Prabha1, Ramesh D.
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description Cerebritis is part of a continuum of brain infection and is difficult to diagnose. Cerebritis caused by Klebsiella in immunocompetent adults without predisposing factors such as neurosurgery or penetrating brain injury has not been reported before. We report a case of Klebsiella cerebritis in an adult patient with a proven extracranial focus of infection. We suggest considering cerebritis as a differential diagnosis for altered level of consciousness in patients of severe sepsis, even if an extracranial source of infection is proven.
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spelling pubmed-27722602009-11-05 Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae Majumdar, Mainak Simes1, David C. Prabha1, Ramesh D. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Cerebritis is part of a continuum of brain infection and is difficult to diagnose. Cerebritis caused by Klebsiella in immunocompetent adults without predisposing factors such as neurosurgery or penetrating brain injury has not been reported before. We report a case of Klebsiella cerebritis in an adult patient with a proven extracranial focus of infection. We suggest considering cerebritis as a differential diagnosis for altered level of consciousness in patients of severe sepsis, even if an extracranial source of infection is proven. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2772260/ /pubmed/19881180 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53116 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Majumdar, Mainak
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Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_fullStr Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full_unstemmed Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_short Cerebritis: An unusual complication of Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_sort cerebritis: an unusual complication of klebsiella pneumoniae
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53116
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