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Parmvir Parmar1,2, Milani Sivapragasam3, Vicente Corrales-Medina1,2
1The Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Abstract:
Brevibacillus species are environmental organisms that are rarely implicated as human pathogens. We present the case of postsurgical Brevibacillus brevis bacterial meningitis and an associated bacteremia after debulking surgery for a newly diagnosed pilocytic astrocytoma in a 19-year-old woman. The patient experienced clinical cure with a 4-week course of vancomycin, but her postinfectious course was complicated by the development of a pseudomeningocele that required surgical repair. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of a central nervous system infection caused by Brevibacillus brevis in the literature.
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