Multiple brain abscesses caused by Salmonella enteritidis in a neonate

Wessalowski, Rüdiger; Thomas, Lutz; Kivit, Jürgen; Voït, Thomas

doi:10.1097/00006454-199308000-00010

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“…12,17 Extremely rare intracranial manifestations (e.g., brain abscesses and subdural empyema) can develop without demonstrable meningitis. 18 We must appreciate the fact that misleading normal results of a diagnostic lumbar puncture can be often seen in a brain abscess. Appendicitis, cholecystitis, peritonitis, cutaneous abscesses, bronchopneumonia, empyema, and osteomyelitis are other reported localizations of metastatic infection.…”

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“…Appendicitis, cholecystitis, peritonitis, cutaneous abscesses, bronchopneumonia, empyema, and osteomyelitis are other reported localizations of metastatic infection. 12,17,18 Salmonella infection in the neonate is usually acquired by transmission through colonization during passage through the birth canal. Therefore, the mother must be the carrier or currently infected with Salmonella.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Fatal Neonatal Salmonella enteritidis Sepsis

Pumberger

Novak

2000

J Perinatol

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Fatal Neonatal Salmonella enteritidis Sepsis

Pumberger

Novak

2000

J Perinatol

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“…In addition to typical meningitis, focal intracranial infections with NTS can occur with or without meningitis. Principal among these are subdural empyema and brain abscess (178,213,232,236,328,337,404).…”

Section: Salmonella Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Intracellular Bacteria

2004

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Infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is a severe and frequently fatal event during the course of many diseases caused by microbes with predominantly intracellular life cycles. Examples of these include the facultative intracellular bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Brucella and Salmonella spp. and obligate intracellular microbes of the Rickettsiaceae family and Tropheryma whipplei. Unfortunately, the mechanisms used by intracellular bacterial pathogens to enter the CNS are less well known than those used by bacterial pathogens with an extracellular life cycle. The goal of this review is to elaborate on the means by which intracellular bacterial pathogens establish infection within the CNS. This review encompasses the clinical and pathological findings that pertain to the CNS infection in humans and includes experimental data from animal models that illuminate how these microbes enter the CNS. Recent experimental data showing that L. monocytogenes can invade the CNS by more than one mechanism make it a useful model for discussing the various routes for neuroinvasion used by intracellular bacterial pathogens

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“…13 Growth in children treated with ciprofloxacin has been found to be normal, 14 and ciprofloxacin-treated pediatric patients monitored by magnetic resonance imaging have not developed the characteristic cartilaginous abnormalities seen in experimental animals. 15 Ciprofloxacin has also been used to treat systemic sepsis, 16 meningitis, 2 and brain abscess 17 caused by multidrug-resistant organisms in infants, including small premature babies. The drug appears to be effective in the neonate, and significant toxicity seems to be uncommon, even in extremely low birth weight infants.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%