Meningitis Caused by Enterococcus gallinarum in an Immunocompetent Host
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Enterococcus gallinarum meningitis in an immunocompetent host: a case report.
We describe a rare case of a 53-year-old man with a long history of alcohol abuse, with Enterococcus gallinarum meningitis, an organism that rarely causes human infection and is primarily found in the gastrointestinal tract of poultry. The patient improved with high-dose ampicillin and gentamicin therapy. To our knowledge, this is the first Brazilian reported case of E. gallinarum meningitis an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2008-3645,2008-4161
DOI: 10.5812/jjm.67164