Streptococcus Viridans meningitis in an immunocompetent child: A case report

In bacterial meningitis, the Viridans streptococci group is not considered a prevalent pathogen. In contrast, the S. viridans group may cause endocarditis and fatal infections in immunocompromised children and adults. We report a 5‐year‐old immunocompetent boy with signs of meningitis. The CSF teste...

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Autores principales: Goudarzi, Ali, Sarmadian, Roham, Yousefichaijan, Parsa, Gilani, Abolfazl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9994428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36911641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7058
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author Goudarzi, Ali
Sarmadian, Roham
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description In bacterial meningitis, the Viridans streptococci group is not considered a prevalent pathogen. In contrast, the S. viridans group may cause endocarditis and fatal infections in immunocompromised children and adults. We report a 5‐year‐old immunocompetent boy with signs of meningitis. The CSF tested positive for meningitis with streptococcus viridans.
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spelling pubmed-99944282023-03-09 Streptococcus Viridans meningitis in an immunocompetent child: A case report Goudarzi, Ali Sarmadian, Roham Yousefichaijan, Parsa Gilani, Abolfazl Clin Case Rep Case Report In bacterial meningitis, the Viridans streptococci group is not considered a prevalent pathogen. In contrast, the S. viridans group may cause endocarditis and fatal infections in immunocompromised children and adults. We report a 5‐year‐old immunocompetent boy with signs of meningitis. The CSF tested positive for meningitis with streptococcus viridans. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9994428/ /pubmed/36911641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7058 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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