Purulent meningitis due to Rhodococcus equi. A case of posttraumatic infection.
Opportunistic infections due to Rhodococcus equi have been increasingly reported in the immunocompromised population, especially in patients with AIDS. In this report, we present an unusual case of purulent meningitis that developed in an immunocompetent six-year-old child through direct inoculation of R. equi.
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Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.
Ozkan
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Vardar
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Burhanoğlu
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Ozinel
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Tokbaş
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D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000382:microbiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D016929:Rhodococcus equi / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D012988:Soil Microbiology