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- Title
Cryptogenic brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Authors
Juyal, Deepak; Pal, Shekhar; Ramola, Mahesh; Rathaur, Vyas Kumar; Sharma, Neelam; Ayachit, Anurag
- Abstract
We report a case of cryptogenic brain abscess caused by infection due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in a previously healthy, 2-year-old, girl child with a history of persistent headache and fever for several weeks. Headache acutely worsened the day before hospital admission with vomiting, right hemiparesis, and altered sensorium. Community-onset pyogenic brain abscess should be added to the growing list of life-threatening invasive infections caused by community-acquired S. aureus. Early diagnosis, prompt neurosurgical drainage, and appropriate medical therapy are important for management of such infections. In light of expanding community-acquired S. aureus epidemic and the life-threatening nature of the disease we recommend empirical use of vancomycin in all cases of community onset brain abscess.
- Subjects
BRAIN abscess; METHICILLIN-resistant staphylococcus aureus; HEADACHE; FEVER; HEMIPARESIS; VOMITING
- Publication
International Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 1, p134
- ISSN
2230-8598
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/2230-8598.127176