A Case of Brain Abscess due toParvimonas micra

is a non-spore-forming anaerobic gram-positive coccus, widely distributed as normal flora in the skin, vagina and mucosa, and able to cause opportunistic infections, particularly endocardi-tis and brain abscess following dental manipulations. A 49-year-old woman was hospitalized due to fever and headache. She had been diagnosed with perio-dontitis at the beginning of fever. A brain abscess was noted in the right temporal lobe on the brain CT, and she was treated with ceftriaxone, isepamicin and metronidazole. In the next day, abscess was as-pirated and drained by a surgical procedure. An or-ganism was isolated from an anaerobic culture of the abscess aspirate, and was identified as