Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, Table of Contents CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 2012; 02(04): 63-64DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1703616 Case Report A PLAUSIBLE COMMUNITY INDUCED SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROTYPE PARATYPHI B INFECTION CAUSING INFANTILE MENINGITIS: A CASE REPORT Ganesh H. R. 1 Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018 , Vimal Kumar Karnaker 2 Professor and HOD, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018 , Sanjeev H. 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018 , Rekha Rai 4 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018 , Asha Pai K. B. 5 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018 , Krishna Prasad M. S. 6 Professor, Department of Microbiology, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore - 575018› Author AffiliationsRecommend Article Abstract PDF Download Abstract A female infant admitted with pyogenic meningitis due to Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B. The organism was isolated from CSF and blood cultures. Keywords KeywordsMeningitis - Salmonella - Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B PDF (30 kb) References References 1 LT Huang, SF KO, CC Lui. Salmonella meningitis: clinical experience of third-generation Cephalosporins. Acta Pzdiatr 86:1056-8. 1997 2 Gomez HF, Cleary TG. In: Text book of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 4th ed. Geigin RD and Cherry JD, Eds (W.B.Saunders Co., Pennsylvania) 1998; Vol I. 1321-1334 3 Betty A. F, Daniel FS, Alice S W. Overview of Bacterial identification Methods and Strategies. In: Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, 12th ed. (The Mosby Elsevier Co., St. Louis, Missouri) 2007:216-247 4 W Winn Jr, S Allen, W Janda, Elmer Koneman: The Enterobacteriaceae. In: Koneman's Colour Atlas and Text book of Diagnostic Microbiology, th 6 ed. (The Wolters Kluwer Co, Philadelphia) 2006:211-302 5 Graham SM, Molyneux EM, Walsh AL, Cheesbrough JS, Molyneux ME, Hart CA: Nontyphoidal Salmonella infections of children in tropical Africa. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2000, 19:1189-1196 6 Weikel CS, Guerrant RL: Nosocomial salmonellosis. Infect Control 1985, 6:218-220 7 Hogne Vaagland, Bjørn Blomberg, Carsten Krüger, Naftali Naman, Roland Jureen, Nina Langeland. Nosocomial outbreak of neonatal Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis meningitis in a rural hospital in northern Tanzania. BMC Infectious Diseases 2004, 4:35 8 Ashkenazi S, Cleary TG. In: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 15th ed. Bebram RE, Kliegman RM, Arvin AM, Eds (W.B.Saunders Co., Pennsylvania) 1996, book 1. 784-790
