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
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Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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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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author 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
author_facet 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
author_sort Cantillo García, Kevin
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description 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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spelling pubmed-94530592022-09-09 A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient 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 Case Rep Med Case Report 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. Hindawi 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9453059/ /pubmed/36092309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1559360 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kevin Cantillo García et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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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
A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_short A Rare Case of Meningitis Caused by Alcaligenes faecalis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort rare case of meningitis caused by alcaligenes faecalis in an immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url 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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