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PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL
Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages E428-E429Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003613
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brain abscess; meningitis; neuroinfection; Streptococcus anginosus group; Streptococcus intermedius
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This report presents a rare case of bacterial meningitis caused by Streptococcus intermedius in a young healthy boy.
Streptococcus intermedius is a commensal bacterium increasingly associated with brain abscesses. It can infect the brain through a direct extension of an inflammatory process or a hematogenous route. Meningitis due to this pathogen is sporadic and has not been described in children before. We report a case of an immunocompetent 6-year-old boy who developed bacterial meningitis due to S. intermedius.
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