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A case of Rhodococcus equi brain abscess.

W G Obana1, K A Scannell, R Jacobs

  • 1Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Surgical Neurology
|April 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

We report a rare case of Rhodococcus equi brain abscess in an AIDS patient. Long-term antibiotic therapy and lesion aspiration successfully treated this extremely uncommon infection.

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Area of Science:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Neurology
  • Microbiology

Background:

  • Rhodococcus equi is an actinomycete typically causing lung infections in immunosuppressed individuals.
  • Brain abscesses caused by Rhodococcus equi are exceptionally rare.
  • No cases of Rhodococcus equi brain abscess have been previously documented in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).