Recurrent meningococcal meningitis with occult CSF leak.
Recurrent meningococcal meningitis was associated with a slow CSF leak in a 24-year-old man. Unique features of the case included isolation of meningococcal group 29E. We speculate that an association exists between subclinical CSF leaks and sporadic cases of meningitis.
D000328:Adult; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence