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ArticleCureus2020

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Very Rare Cause of Meningitis.

Maham A Mehmood, Madanmohan Patel, Harshavardhan Sanekommu

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Maham A MehmoodInternal Medicine, BronxCare Hospital, New York, USA.
Madanmohan PatelInternal Medicine, BronxCare Hospital, New York, USA.
Harshavardhan SanekommuInternal Medicine, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Bronx, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is mostly implicated in soft tissue and skin infections. Cases with meningitis caused by CA-MRSA are rare. High index of suspicion should be kept for physicians as bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency and if untreated, has a high mortality rate. Urgent steps need to be taken to determine the cause and implement therapy. Here, we reported a case of a 58-year-old female with MRSA bacteremia and meningitis as confirmed by positive blood cultures and cerebrospinal fluid analysis; successfully managed with vancomycin and rifampin.

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bacteremialumber puncturemeningitismethicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa)vancomycin

Identifiers

PMID33062493
PMCPMC7550032

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