title: Chronic Mycobacterium avium complex infection of the central nervous system in a nonimmunosuppressed woman.
abstract: We report the case of a woman who developed chronic meningitis and a brain abscess due to Mycobacterium avium, without immunosuppressed state. She was treated with antituberculous drugs but the infection progressed and she died 4 years after first becoming ill. The occurrence of CNS infection with M. avium in the absence of acquired immunosuppression is rare. Its diagnosis is difficult, delaying clinical recognition and appropriate therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Uldry
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bogousslavsky
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Regli
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chave
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Beer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000175:diagnosis