Rhodococcus equi Nosocomial Meningitis Cured by Levofloxacin and Shunt Removal
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 30 (1) , 223-224
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313628
Abstract
Rhodococcus equi is increasingly being recognized as a pathogen in immunocompromised patients, especially those infected with HIV. The overwhelming majority of reported R. equi infections in humans involve the lung; CNS infections are rare, occurring as brain abscesses, and meningitis in a healthy host has never been reported [1].Keywords
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