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Query: UMLS:C0085437 (
bacterial meningitis
)
4,038
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Streptococcus agalactiae is a rare cause of acute
bacterial meningitis
. We report the case of a middle age non-pregnant female patient, with no comorbitidies, who was hospitalized with acute meningitis. The pathogen was identified both in blood and CSF. She recovered uneventfully with ceftriaxone and dexamethasone. A CSF leak was suspected by previous history of unilateral watery rhinorrhea, that was demonstrated with a high resolution paranasal sinus CT and beta-2 transferrin analysis of the nasal fluid.
Vulvovaginitis
was also diagnosed after admission, but no cultures were obtained. Streptococcus agalactiae is an infrequent cause of
bacterial meningitis
that should promote the search of anatomical abnormalities or comorbidities in non-pregnant adults and beyond newborn period.
...
PMID:[Acute bacterial meningitis by Streptococcus agalactiae in a non pregnant woman associated to a cerebrospinal fluid leak: a case report]. 2452 13
