Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report

We describe a case of a 19-year-old female presenting with Mycobacterium bovis meningitis, a rarely encountered infection. We discuss the use of pyrosequencing to aid in prompt diagnosis of M. bovis infection, as well as treatment strategies and challenges given the organism’s intrinsic resistance t...

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Autores principales: Clifford, Katherine M, Szumowski, John D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Novel ID Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa475
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description We describe a case of a 19-year-old female presenting with Mycobacterium bovis meningitis, a rarely encountered infection. We discuss the use of pyrosequencing to aid in prompt diagnosis of M. bovis infection, as well as treatment strategies and challenges given the organism’s intrinsic resistance to pyrazinamide.
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spelling pubmed-75881052020-10-30 Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report Clifford, Katherine M Szumowski, John D Open Forum Infect Dis Novel ID Cases We describe a case of a 19-year-old female presenting with Mycobacterium bovis meningitis, a rarely encountered infection. We discuss the use of pyrosequencing to aid in prompt diagnosis of M. bovis infection, as well as treatment strategies and challenges given the organism’s intrinsic resistance to pyrazinamide. Oxford University Press 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7588105/ /pubmed/33134425 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa475 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_full Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report
title_fullStr Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report
title_short Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report
title_sort disseminated mycobacterium bovis infection complicated by meningitis and stroke: a case report
topic Novel ID Cases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588105/
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