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Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia

Staphylococcus lugdunensis has been recognized to be a microorganism potentially more virulent than other coagulase-negative staphylococci. We report the case of a patient who presented with a single, large, right, frontoparietal abscess that evolved despite conventional antibiotic treatment. Bacter...

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Autores principales: Matas, Andreia, Veiga, Andreia, Gabriel, João Paulo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371441
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description Staphylococcus lugdunensis has been recognized to be a microorganism potentially more virulent than other coagulase-negative staphylococci. We report the case of a patient who presented with a single, large, right, frontoparietal abscess that evolved despite conventional antibiotic treatment. Bacteremia and endocarditis were excluded. After surgical treatment, S. lugdunensis sensible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was isolated, and the patient responded favorably to treatment. Although the ability of S. lugdunensis to produce brain abscesses has been recognized, we report a case of a brain abscess in the absence of bacteremia or endocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-43275562015-03-10 Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia Matas, Andreia Veiga, Andreia Gabriel, João Paulo Case Rep Neurol Published online: January, 2015 Staphylococcus lugdunensis has been recognized to be a microorganism potentially more virulent than other coagulase-negative staphylococci. We report the case of a patient who presented with a single, large, right, frontoparietal abscess that evolved despite conventional antibiotic treatment. Bacteremia and endocarditis were excluded. After surgical treatment, S. lugdunensis sensible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was isolated, and the patient responded favorably to treatment. Although the ability of S. lugdunensis to produce brain abscesses has been recognized, we report a case of a brain abscess in the absence of bacteremia or endocarditis. S. Karger AG 2015-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4327556/ /pubmed/25759658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371441 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: January, 2015
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Veiga, Andreia
Gabriel, João Paulo
Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title_full Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title_fullStr Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title_full_unstemmed Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title_short Brain Abscess due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in the Absence of Endocarditis or Bacteremia
title_sort brain abscess due to staphylococcus lugdunensis in the absence of endocarditis or bacteremia
topic Published online: January, 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371441
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