Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male. Academic Article

abstract

• Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful treatment of a case of primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an otherwise healthy 72-year-old male.

authors

• Hintze, Trager

published proceedings

• IDCases

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Hintze, T., Steed, M., Sievers, E., Bagwell, J. T., & Selfa, N.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Hintze, Trager||Steed, Michelle||Sievers, Eric||Bagwell, John T||Selfa, Nicola

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• IDCases  Journal

keywords

• Bacterial Meningitis
• Ceftriaxone
• Fusobacterium Infections
• Fusobacterium Nucleatum

PubMed Central ID

• 31453104

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616

start page

• e00616

end page

• e00616

volume

• 18

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616