Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hintze, Trager; Steed, Michelle; Sievers, Eric; Bagwell, John T.; Selfa, Nicola
• Is Part Of: IDCases. Volume 18(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: Bacterial meningitis -- Fusobacterium infections -- Fusobacterium nucleatum -- Ceftriaxone; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Case Reports; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Communicable diseases; Periodicals; 616.9
• DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-2509

Abstract

Abstract: Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful treatment of a case of primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an otherwise healthy 72-year-old male.