Brain abscess associated with multidrug-resistant Capnocytophaga ochracea infection.

ABSTRACT: Brain abscesses are occasionally associated with a dental source of infection. An unusual case of frontal lobe abscess in a nonimmunocompromised child infected with multidrug-resistant Capnocytophaga ochracea is described and confirms the pathogenic potential of this organism to cause human disease in the central nervous system.

SUBMITTER: Wang HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1829059 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature