Open AccessPosttraumatic Gas-containing Brain Abscess Caused by Clostridium perfringens with Unique Simultaneous Fungal Suppuration by Myceliophthora thermophila: Case Report
Author(s) -
İsmail H. Tekkök,
Michael J. Higgins,
Enrique C. G. Ventureyra
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1097/00006123-199612000-00039
Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium perfringens , brain abscess , abscess , itraconazole , antibiotics , amphotericin b , surgery , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , antifungal , dermatology , bacteria , biology , genetics
Gas-containing brain abscesses are rare, and the vast majority are caused by Clostridium perfringens. Significant simultaneous fungal infection in a bacterial abscess is even rarer. We present such a case and review the literature.