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Review Case Reports
Mycobacterium fortuitum meningitis associated with an epidural catheter: case report and a review of the literature.
- K J Madaras-Kelly, T A DeMasters, and D L Stevens.
- College of Pharmacy, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA.
- Pharmacotherapy. 1999 May 1; 19 (5): 661-6.
AbstractMycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing organism that has rarely been associated with meningitis. A patient developed M. fortuitum meningitis as the result of a permanent indwelling, contaminated, epidural catheter. Diagnosis and treatment of the disease are difficult in that clinical features may be indolent, and many antimicrobials with activity against M. fortuitum have minimal cerebrospinal fluid penetration. This patient was cured with an antibiotic regimen that consisted of doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, and clarithromycin, and removal of the epidural catheter.
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