A case of Mycobacterium fortuitum meningitis following surgery for meningioma

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 480-484

  Fujikawa, Keita ^a   Suenaga, Akihito ^b   Motomura, Masakatsu ^a   Fukuda, Taku ^b   Ooe, Nobuharu ^b   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITAKYUSHU CITY YAHATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Mycobacterium fortuitum; Non tuberculous mycobacteriosis; Post operation

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CLARITHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OFLOXACIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33750344257     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Official Statement of The American Thoracic Society: Diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 156: S1-S25
2. Wallace RJ, Bedsole G, Sumter G, et al: Activities of ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin against rapidly growing mycobacteria with demonstration of acquired resistance following single-drug therapy. Antimicrob Agents Chemotherapy 1990; 34: 65-70
3. Midani S, Rathore MH: Mycobacterium fortuitum infection of vetriculoperitoneal shunt. Southern Med J 1999; 92: 705-707
4. Kuruvila MT, Mathews P, Jesudason M, et al: Mycobacterium fortuitum endocarditis and meningitis after balloon mitral valvotomy. JAPI 1999; 47: 1022-1023
5. Madaras-Kelly KJ, DeMasters TA, Stevens DL: Mycobacterium fortuitum meningitis associated with an epidural catheter: case report and a review of the literature. Pharmacotherapy 1999; 19: 661-666
6. Dalovisio JR, Panky GA: Problems in diagnosis and therapy of Mycobacterium fortuitum infections. Am Rev Respir Dis 1978; 117: 625-630
7. Santamaria-Jauregui J, Sanz-Hospital J, Berenguer J, et al: Meningitis caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum. Am Rev Respir dis 1984; 130: 136-137
8. Dalovisio JR, Pankey GA, Wallace RJ, et al: Clinical usefulness of amikacin and doxycycline in the treatment of infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonei. Rev Infect Dis 1981; 5: 1068-1074
9. Smith MB, Boyars MC, Woods GL: Fatal Mycobacterium fortuitum meningitis in a patient with AIDS. Clin Infect Dis 1996; 23: 1327-1328
10. Hand WL, Sanford JP: Mycobacterium fortuitum-a human pathogen. Ann Intern Med 1970; 73: 971-977