2024
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2023-257261
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Immunocompromised teenager with meningitis caused byUreaplasma parvum

Birgitta Ehrnström,
Maria Schei Haugan,
Jo Bønding Andreasen
et al.

Abstract: Infection in the immunocompromised patient is often challenging on multiple levels. It can be difficult to distinguish between manifestations of the underlying disease, infection or malignancy. Symptoms may be vague or even absent, deviations in the common inflammatory parameters discrete, imaging findings scarce and the causative microbe may be a true pathogen as well as opportunistic. Here, we report an immunosuppressed female in her late teens with a purulent meningitis due toUreaplasma parvum—a very rare c… Show more

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