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Nosocomially Acquired Pseudomonas stutzeri Brain Abscess in a Child: Case Report and Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Stephanie Yee-Guardino ,
Lara Danziger-Isakov ,
Mark Knouse ,
William Bingaman ,
Camille Sabella  and
Johanna Goldfarb
Stephanie Yee-Guardino
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Lara Danziger-Isakov
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Mark Knouse
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania
William Bingaman
Affiliation:
Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Camille Sabella
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Johanna Goldfarb*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195 (goldfaj@ccf.org)
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Abstract

Pseudomonas stutzeri is a rare cause of nosocomial infection. We report a pediatric case of nosocomially acquired P. stutzeri brain abscess after subdural grid implantation before surgery for refractory epilepsy and review the literature.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , June 2006 , pp. 630 - 632
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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