A case of brain abscess due toEntamoebaspecies,Eikenella corrodensandPrevotellaspecies

Özüm, Ünal; Karadağ, O; Eğilmez, R; Engin, Aynur; Oztoprak, I; Özçelık, Semra

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“…[26] Other group of patients at risk of unusual pathogens are the immigrants from underdeveloped countries, they can have, in addition to those pathogens affecting inmunocompromised patients, other pathogens like Taenia, E. histolytica, Schistosoma, Echinococcus, and Paragonimus. [26,[65][66][67][68][69][70][71] In the Nathoo et al [4] series (the biggest reported), it was found that majority of patients undergoing surgery (53.2%) had isolation of a single organism, being the commonest the gram-positive organisms: S. aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis, especially in traumatic BA. Streptococcus milleri isolates were predominant in patients with paranasal sinusitis, whereas Proteus mirabilis was most commonly isolated in otogenic infections.…”

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Brain abscess: Current management

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et al. 2013

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice

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Brain abscess (BA) is defined as a focal infection within the brain parenchyma, which starts as a localized area of cerebritis, which is subsequently converted into a collection of pus within a well-vascularized capsule. BA must be differentiated from parameningeal infections, including epidural abscess and subdural empyema. The BA is a challenge for the neurosurgeon because it is needed good clinical, pharmacological, and surgical skills for providing good clinical outcomes and prognosis to BA patients. Considered an infrequent brain infection, BA could be a devastator entity that easily left the patient into dead. The aim of this work is to review the current concepts regarding epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of BA.

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