1. Escherichia coli spontaneous community-acquired meningitis in adults: A case report and literature review
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P. Parola, Didier Raoult, J.-C. Lagier, Hortense Drouet, Grégory Dubourg, Camille Aubry, Amandine Bichon, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48, Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections (MEPHI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes (VITROME), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Brétigny-sur-Orge] (IRBA), INSB-INSB-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
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Microbiology (medical) ,Adult ,Male ,Escherichia coli Meningitis ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,Escherichia coli ,Medicine ,Humans ,Meningitis ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Escherichia coli Infections ,Aged ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Gram-negatiive meningitis ,Spontaneous community-acquired ,3. Good health ,Community-Acquired Infections ,Infectious Diseases ,Female ,France ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
International audience; Gram-negative bacillary meningitis occurring post-trauma and following neurosurgical procedures has been described widely. However, reports of spontaneous cases are sparse, particularly communityacquired cases. Spontaneous community-acquired Escherichia coli meningitis is a rare (although increasingly seen) and specific entity that is poorly reported in the literature. A review of the literature identified only 43 cases of community-acquired E. coli meningitis reported between 1946 and 2016. This article describes two new cases of spontaneous community-acquired E. coli meningitis encountered in Marseille, France, and presents the results of a literature review on spontaneous community-acquired E. coli meningitis.
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- 2018