Bacteroides meningitis complicating chronic mastoiditis
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Bacteroides meningitis complicating chronic mastoiditis.
A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic middle and external ear suppuration presenting with acute meningitis due to Bacteroides uniformis is described. Anaerobic organisms including Bacteroides species were cultured from the affected external auditory meatus. Administration of metronidazole led to complete clinical recovery and a cholesteatoma was subsequently surgically evacuated. Chronic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.58.683.560