Salmonella typhimurium meningitis in infancy

We report a case of meningitis due to Salmonella typhimurium in a four-month-old female infant. The child was brought to the pediatric emergency department with complaints of fever, cold, and generalized convulsion. On examination, the child was febrile and was having seizures. The anterior fontanel...

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Autores principales: Adhikary, Ranjeeta, Joshi, Sangeeta, Ramakrishnan, Meera
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24501496
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.123464
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author Adhikary, Ranjeeta
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description We report a case of meningitis due to Salmonella typhimurium in a four-month-old female infant. The child was brought to the pediatric emergency department with complaints of fever, cold, and generalized convulsion. On examination, the child was febrile and was having seizures. The anterior fontanelle was not bulging. Lumbar puncture was done and Salmonella typhimurium was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid. Initially the infant improved clinically with appropriate management, but had a fatal outcome due to nosocomial pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-39025792014-02-05 Salmonella typhimurium meningitis in infancy Adhikary, Ranjeeta Joshi, Sangeeta Ramakrishnan, Meera Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We report a case of meningitis due to Salmonella typhimurium in a four-month-old female infant. The child was brought to the pediatric emergency department with complaints of fever, cold, and generalized convulsion. On examination, the child was febrile and was having seizures. The anterior fontanelle was not bulging. Lumbar puncture was done and Salmonella typhimurium was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid. Initially the infant improved clinically with appropriate management, but had a fatal outcome due to nosocomial pneumonia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3902579/ /pubmed/24501496 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.123464 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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