Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus meningitis

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) meningitis is rarely known to occur in children. We report an 11-year-old girl with fever, headache and vomiting, right hemiparesis with left-sided upper motor neuron facial nerve palsy and bladder incontinence. On investigation, she was found to ha...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Noella Maria Delia, Shah, Ira, Ohri, Alpana, Shah, Forum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4652058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26609421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv064
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Shah, Ira
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description Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) meningitis is rarely known to occur in children. We report an 11-year-old girl with fever, headache and vomiting, right hemiparesis with left-sided upper motor neuron facial nerve palsy and bladder incontinence. On investigation, she was found to have MRSA meningitis with an acute left thalamo-corpuscular infarct. She was treated with vancomycin, linezolid and rifampicin. She recovered successfully with residual right-sided lower limb monoparesis. MRSA meningitis is rare but can occur in children.
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spelling pubmed-46520582015-11-25 Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus meningitis Pereira, Noella Maria Delia Shah, Ira Ohri, Alpana Shah, Forum Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) meningitis is rarely known to occur in children. We report an 11-year-old girl with fever, headache and vomiting, right hemiparesis with left-sided upper motor neuron facial nerve palsy and bladder incontinence. On investigation, she was found to have MRSA meningitis with an acute left thalamo-corpuscular infarct. She was treated with vancomycin, linezolid and rifampicin. She recovered successfully with residual right-sided lower limb monoparesis. MRSA meningitis is rare but can occur in children. Oxford University Press 2015-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4652058/ /pubmed/26609421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv064 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4652058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26609421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv064
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