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- Title
Central Nervous System Nocardia Infection.
- Authors
Mills, Vernon A.; Cleary, Thomas G.; Frankel, Larry; Miner, Michael E.; Wallace Jr., Richard J.; SilvaSosa, Mario
- Abstract
This article presents the cases of two children with primary central nervous system nocardia to illustrate the signs, symptoms, difficulty in diagnosis, and requirement for long-term therapy. A 4-year-old male, was shot in the left occiput by a pellet gun. One week after antibiotics were discontinued, generalized seizures, frontal headache, and fever developed. Gram stain of the contents of the abscess revealed rare gram positive beaded filamentous organisms and the culture subsequently grew Nocardia asteroides and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Another 4-year-old male with acute lymphocytic leukemia was in remission and doing well until he developed a fever without other signs. Nocardia asteroides was isolated from two consecutive cerebrospinal fluid cultures.
- Subjects
JUVENILE diseases; CENTRAL nervous system diseases; NOCARDIA; BACTERIAL diseases
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1982, Vol 21, Issue 4, p248
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992288202100413