Mycoplasma hominis brain abscess presenting after a head trauma: a case report.
BACKGROUND
Mycoplasma hominis brain abscess is a rare occurrence, and treatment is not well defined. The mechanism by which M. hominis infects sites outside the genitourinary tract, including the central nervous system, is unclear.


METHODS
We report the case of a 40-year-old Somali man who sustained a traumatic brain injury that required initial neurosurgical hematoma evacuation and that subsequently was complicated by a hospital-acquired M. hominis brain abscess. Our patient was successfully treated with neurosurgical debridement and an antibiotic course of intravenous doxycycline.


CONCLUSIONS
Head trauma or neurosurgical procedures or both might be a predisposing factor for this type of infection.
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 12700 E, 19th Avenue, Mail Stop B168, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. andres.henaomartinez@ucdenver.edu.
Andrés F
AF
Henao-Martínez
Heather
H
Young
Johanna Jacoba Loes
JJ
Nardi-Korver
William
W
Burman