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Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature
A 7-year-old male presented with meningitis. CSF gram stain showed gram negative rods, but the organism failed to grow on culture. 16 s rRNA sequencing identified the organism as Bacteroides fragilis. The patient fully recovered with antibiotic therapy targeting that organism.
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2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9253640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35801006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01550 |
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| author | Shah, Mamta D. Chy, Bruce K. Price, Nathan B. |
| author_facet | Shah, Mamta D. Chy, Bruce K. Price, Nathan B. |
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| description | A 7-year-old male presented with meningitis. CSF gram stain showed gram negative rods, but the organism failed to grow on culture. 16 s rRNA sequencing identified the organism as Bacteroides fragilis. The patient fully recovered with antibiotic therapy targeting that organism. |
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| spelling | pubmed-92536402022-07-06 Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature Shah, Mamta D. Chy, Bruce K. Price, Nathan B. IDCases Case Report A 7-year-old male presented with meningitis. CSF gram stain showed gram negative rods, but the organism failed to grow on culture. 16 s rRNA sequencing identified the organism as Bacteroides fragilis. The patient fully recovered with antibiotic therapy targeting that organism. Elsevier 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9253640/ /pubmed/35801006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01550 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://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/). |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Shah, Mamta D. Chy, Bruce K. Price, Nathan B. Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title | Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title_full | Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title_fullStr | Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title_short | Bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: A case report and review of the literature |
| title_sort | bacteroides meningitis in a healthy child: a case report and review of the literature |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9253640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35801006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01550 |
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