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Pasteurella ureae meningitis as complication of skull fractures

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The case of a six-year-old boy who developed meningitis three months after a skull fracture is reported. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid yieldedPasteurella ureae. A two-week intravenous course of ampicillin and chloramphenicol resulted in full recovery. Two of the other four cases ofPasteurella ureae meningitis reported in the literature occurred after skull fractures, and one after intracranial surgery. The child described here is the youngest reported patient with meningitis due to this rare pathogen.

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  1. A. Simo

    Present address: Microbiology Laboratory, Soroka University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 151, 84101, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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  1. Division of Paediatrics, Soroka University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 151, 84101, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    P. Yagupsky & R. Gorodischer

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Yagupsky, P., Simo, A. & Gorodischer, R. Pasteurella ureae meningitis as complication of skull fractures. Eur. J, Clin. Microbiol. 4, 589–590 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02013402

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