Sporadic tuberculous meningoencephalitis.
Tuberculous meningoencephalitis in a 24-month-old boy is reported. He contracted the infection from his apparently healthy grandfather with unnoticed pulmonary tuberculosis, as suggested by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the isolated pathogen.
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Division of Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Albisetti
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Pfyffer
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Nadal
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D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*