title: Salmonella brain abscess in an infant.
abstract: Brain abscess is an uncommon and serious life-threatening infection in children. Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella spp. in this age group are also rare. We report the case of a 4-month-old male infant with a frontoparietal brain abscess caused by Salmonella typhimurium, the presence of which was not suspected clinically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, TNMC and BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, India. badhulisamal@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Badhuli
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Samal
authors.forename: Seema
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oommen
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Swami
authors.forename: Madhavi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maskey
authors.forename: Jayanthi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shastri