Open AccessGemella morbillorum: an underestimated aetiology of central nervous system infection?
Author(s) -
P. Benedetti,
Mario Rassu,
Michele Branscombe,
Armine Sefton,
Giampietro Pellizzer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.013367-0
Subject(s) - central nervous system , brain abscess , etiology , medicine , parenchyma , antibiotic therapy , pathology , antibiotics , abscess , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , surgery
A case is reported of cerebellar abscess and diffuse cerebritis due to Gemella morbillorum. The clinical course was 'biphasic', developing with an acute meningeal infection followed shortly afterwards by suppuration in the cerebellar and cerebral parenchyma; this pattern seemed to suggest a latent survival of the aetiological agent, probably within the central nervous system (CNS), despite systemic antibiotic therapy. Based upon a review of cases so far described, infections of the CNS caused by G. morbillorum appear to be an emerging reality.
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