Brain & development
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We are reporting a male neonate with meningitis caused by Bifidobacterium breve. This is only the second case reported so far to our knowledge. ⋯ Anaerobic meningitis is very rare, but it may exist in more than the reported cases. Anaerobic culture should be performed for patients with culture-negative purulent meningitis.
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Brain & development · Mar 1996
Case ReportsDiffuse white matter lesions associated with herpes simplex encephalitis as observed on magnetic resonance imaging.
A 2-year-old boy with herpes simplex encephalitis developed diffuse brain lesions involving the white matter of both cerebral hemispheres. These lesions in the white matter were clearly observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the T2-weighted sequence, and were found to have spontaneously disappeared on subsequent MRI performed 7 weeks later. Brain lesions associated with herpes simplex encephalitis in the literature are reviewed and the pathogenesis in the present case is discussed.