title: Sporadic tuberculous meningoencephalitis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Albisetti
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Pfyffer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nadal
mesh_terms: 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*