J Med Microbiol Email Content Delivery
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kim, S. R.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, N. Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kim, S. R.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, N. Y.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Kim, S. R.
Right arrow Articles by Lee, N. Y.
J Med Microbiol 56 (2007), 1405-1406; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47199-0
© 2007 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Case Report

Chronic meningitis caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

Suk Ran Kim, Min Jung Kwon, Jang Ho Lee and Nam Yong Lee

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Correspondence
Nam Yong Lee
micro.lee{at}samsung.com

Received 31 January 2007
Accepted 1 June 2007

A 47-year-old man presented with headache, nausea, vomiting and fever. Laboratory findings including analysis of cerebrospinal fluid suggested bacterial meningitis. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was identified in cultures of cerebrospinal fluid. The patient recovered without any neurological sequelae after antimicrobial treatment. It is interesting that intracranial infection by E. rhusiopathiae reappeared after scores of years and that it presented with absence of an underlying cause or bacteraemia.

Abbreviations: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
INT J SYST EVOL MICROBIOL J MED MICROBIOL MICROBIOLOGY J GEN VIROL ALL SGM JOURNALS
Copyright © 2007 Society for General Microbiology.