A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient

Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis) is a Gram-negative rod rarely isolated as an infective bacterium worldwide. The first cases of infections caused by this microorganism, such as pneumonia, soft tissue infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, and meningitis, date back more than 40 years and...

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Autores principales: Cantillo García, Kevin, Calderón Duran, Oscar, Acosta Pérez, Tomás, Vásquez Jiménez, Ángel, Madrid Pérez, Emerson, Martínez-Ávila, María Cristina, Rodríguez Yánez, Tomás, Almanza-Hurtado, Amilkar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9453059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36092309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1559360
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Sumario:Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis) is a Gram-negative rod rarely isolated as an infective bacterium worldwide. The first cases of infections caused by this microorganism, such as pneumonia, soft tissue infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, and meningitis, date back more than 40 years and are almost entirely in newborns and immunosuppressed hosts. Optimal antibiotic therapy for A. faecalis has not been well established in the literature. We report a case of an immunocompetent patient in Colombia who had meningitis due to A. faecalis after a dental procedure. It is important to know about this microorganism that nowadays could be considered a potentially emerging pathogen in immunocompetent adults.

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