title: Hematogenous pasteurella haemolytica brain abscess.
abstract: Pasteurella infections are common in domestic animals and very rare in human. We report a hematogenously acquired Pasteurella haemolytica brain abscess, mimicking brain tumor on magnetic resonance imaging, in an 18-year-old female patient known with cardiac interventricular communication, without recent history of animal contact. The outcome was good after abscess complete removal and antimicrobials therapy for 6 weeks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of P. haemolytica brain abscess.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Darmoul
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Atef
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben Nsir
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kilani
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Mohamed Nejib
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Hattab
keywords: Brain abscess; Pasteurella haemolytica; hematogenous route