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Rat Model of Widespread Cerebral Cortical Demyelination Induced by an Intracerebral Injection of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines
Published on: September 21, 2021
[Recurrence of meningoencephalitis induced by cotrimoxazole]
F Carrillo1, A Cubero, J Hernández Gallego
1Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Ntra, Sra. de Candelaria, Tenerife.
Abstract:
Although infrequent, one of the etiological causes of aseptic meningoencephalitis is drug-induced. In our patient, two cases of meningocephalitis took place over a period of six years, together with a meningismus following consumption of trimetroprim-sulphametoxazol (cotrimoxazol). Features of the cases were mental confusion, fever, alterations in the CSF and a benign clinical course, with a high degree of doubt regarding diagnosis, given the similarity of anomalies in the CSF to those present in partially treated bacterian meningitis.
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