Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male

Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful tre...

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Autores principales: Hintze, Trager, Steed, Michelle, Sievers, Eric, Bagwell, John T., Selfa, Nicola
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6704266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31453104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616
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Bagwell, John T.
Selfa, Nicola
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description Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful treatment of a case of primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an otherwise healthy 72-year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-67042662019-08-26 Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male Hintze, Trager Steed, Michelle Sievers, Eric Bagwell, John T. Selfa, Nicola IDCases Article Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful treatment of a case of primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an otherwise healthy 72-year-old male. Elsevier 2019-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6704266/ /pubmed/31453104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male
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title_short Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6704266/
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