Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism

We herein report a case of Campylobacter fetus meningoencephalitis in a patient with chronic alcoholism. C. fetus is a rare cause of meningitis. The patient presented with hallucinations and monology, and alcohol withdrawal was initially suspected. After he was unsuccessfully treated for alcohol wit...

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Autores principales: Tanabe, Sho, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Tsuboi, Motoyuki, Takeshita, Nozomi, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Ohmagari, Norio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6709320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918169
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1486-18
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author Tanabe, Sho
Kutsuna, Satoshi
Tsuboi, Motoyuki
Takeshita, Nozomi
Hayakawa, Kayoko
Ohmagari, Norio
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Tsuboi, Motoyuki
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description We herein report a case of Campylobacter fetus meningoencephalitis in a patient with chronic alcoholism. C. fetus is a rare cause of meningitis. The patient presented with hallucinations and monology, and alcohol withdrawal was initially suspected. After he was unsuccessfully treated for alcohol withdrawal delirium, we diagnosed C. fetus meningoencephalitis. Ampicillin monotherapy gradually improved his clinical status. A previous report stated that C. fetus infection is associated with chronic alcoholism. In patients with chronic alcoholism and disturbed consciousness, an atypical bacterial central nervous system infection, such as C. fetus meningoencephalitis, should be considered.
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spelling pubmed-67093202019-08-26 Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism Tanabe, Sho Kutsuna, Satoshi Tsuboi, Motoyuki Takeshita, Nozomi Hayakawa, Kayoko Ohmagari, Norio Intern Med Case Report We herein report a case of Campylobacter fetus meningoencephalitis in a patient with chronic alcoholism. C. fetus is a rare cause of meningitis. The patient presented with hallucinations and monology, and alcohol withdrawal was initially suspected. After he was unsuccessfully treated for alcohol withdrawal delirium, we diagnosed C. fetus meningoencephalitis. Ampicillin monotherapy gradually improved his clinical status. A previous report stated that C. fetus infection is associated with chronic alcoholism. In patients with chronic alcoholism and disturbed consciousness, an atypical bacterial central nervous system infection, such as C. fetus meningoencephalitis, should be considered. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019-03-28 2019-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6709320/ /pubmed/30918169 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1486-18 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism
title_full Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism
title_fullStr Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism
title_full_unstemmed Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism
title_short Meningoencephalitis Caused by a Campylobacter fetus in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholism
title_sort meningoencephalitis caused by a campylobacter fetus in a patient with chronic alcoholism
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6709320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918169
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1486-18
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