Listeria rhomboencephalitis.
Listeria rhomboencephalitis is a rare form of listeriosis which is frequently not diagnosed before death. We here describe an instance in an apparently healthy immunocompetent lady which responded to appropriate therapy. Treatment with intravenous ampicillin with or without an aminoglycoside antibiotic should be instituted early if the patient is to survive.
Frayne
J
J
Department of Neurology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Vic.
Gates
P
P
D004660:Encephalitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed