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Streptococcal meningitis resulting from contact with an infected horse
J Downar1, B M Willey, J W Sutherland
1Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X5.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 29, 2001
Abstract:
We report a case of group C streptococcal meningitis in a woman with a history of close animal contact as well as head trauma as a result of a kick by a horse. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures grew Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus, as did a throat culture taken from the colt that had kicked her 2 weeks prior to admission.