Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Very Rare Cause of Meningitis

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is mostly implicated in soft tissue and skin infections. Cases with meningitis caused by CA-MRSA are rare. High index of suspicion should be kept for physicians as bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency and if untreated, h...

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Autores principales: Mehmood, Maham A, Patel, Madanmohan, Sanekommu, Harshavardhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7550032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062493
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10370
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description Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is mostly implicated in soft tissue and skin infections. Cases with meningitis caused by CA-MRSA are rare. High index of suspicion should be kept for physicians as bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency and if untreated, has a high mortality rate. Urgent steps need to be taken to determine the cause and implement therapy. Here, we reported a case of a 58-year-old female with MRSA bacteremia and meningitis as confirmed by positive blood cultures and cerebrospinal fluid analysis; successfully managed with vancomycin and rifampin.
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spelling pubmed-75500322020-10-13 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Very Rare Cause of Meningitis Mehmood, Maham A Patel, Madanmohan Sanekommu, Harshavardhan Cureus Internal Medicine Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is mostly implicated in soft tissue and skin infections. Cases with meningitis caused by CA-MRSA are rare. High index of suspicion should be kept for physicians as bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency and if untreated, has a high mortality rate. Urgent steps need to be taken to determine the cause and implement therapy. Here, we reported a case of a 58-year-old female with MRSA bacteremia and meningitis as confirmed by positive blood cultures and cerebrospinal fluid analysis; successfully managed with vancomycin and rifampin. Cureus 2020-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7550032/ /pubmed/33062493 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10370 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mehmood 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_fullStr Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Very Rare Cause of Meningitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7550032/
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