Salmonella Infection After Craniotomy

Salmonella is an uncommon cause of meningitis, especially after neurosurgery. Here, we present a case of Salmonella meningitis after craniotomy, likely due to physical contact with a snake after surgery, with contiguous spread from the patient’s hand to her wound. The purpose of this report is to se...

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Autores principales: Byer, Lennox, Rutledge, Caleb, Wallender, Erika, Osorio, Joseph A, Jacobs, Richard, Theodosopoulos, Philip V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5640389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29057178
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1566
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Wallender, Erika
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Jacobs, Richard
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description Salmonella is an uncommon cause of meningitis, especially after neurosurgery. Here, we present a case of Salmonella meningitis after craniotomy, likely due to physical contact with a snake after surgery, with contiguous spread from the patient’s hand to her wound. The purpose of this report is to serve as a reminder that patients undergoing neurosurgery should avoid contact with pets, including snakes and other reptiles, in the postoperative period and practice good hand hygiene.
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spelling pubmed-56403892017-10-22 Salmonella Infection After Craniotomy Byer, Lennox Rutledge, Caleb Wallender, Erika Osorio, Joseph A Jacobs, Richard Theodosopoulos, Philip V Cureus Neurosurgery Salmonella is an uncommon cause of meningitis, especially after neurosurgery. Here, we present a case of Salmonella meningitis after craniotomy, likely due to physical contact with a snake after surgery, with contiguous spread from the patient’s hand to her wound. The purpose of this report is to serve as a reminder that patients undergoing neurosurgery should avoid contact with pets, including snakes and other reptiles, in the postoperative period and practice good hand hygiene. Cureus 2017-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5640389/ /pubmed/29057178 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1566 Text en Copyright © 2017, Byer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_short Salmonella Infection After Craniotomy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5640389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29057178
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