Background: Nocardial brain abscess is a rare central nervous system (CNS) infection with high morbidity and mortality. The infection is acquired through inhalation or direct contact with the bacteria, and could spreads through blood transmission. Nocardial brain abscess is usually associated with immunocompromised patients, but sometimes may appear in healthy individuals. Treatment is based on...

Nocardial brain abscess is a rare central nervous system (CNS) infection with high morbidity and mortality. Nocardial brain abscess is usually associated with immunocompromised patients, but sometimes may appear in healthy individuals. Clinical presentation: We report a case of nocardial brain abscess treated at our department in an immunocompetent patient who was initially treated for CNS tube...

Lactococcus lactis cremoris is one of the gram positive cocci, not known to be pathogenic in humans. We report a case brain abscess due lactococcus an adolescent. An 18-year male with congenitally corrected transposition great arteries and dextrocardia was admitted fever, headache right-sided numbness. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed well circumscribed irregular heterogeneous abnormal signa...

BACKGROUND The optimal treatment regimen and duration of the therapy is still controversial in spinal brucellosis. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy, adverse drug reactions, complications and cost of ciprofloxacin plus rifampicin versus doxycycline plus streptomycin in the treatment of spinal brucellosis. METHODS The patients diagnosed as spinal brucellosis between January 2002...

Intracranial calcifications are relatively common computed tomographic findings in the field of neurosurgery, and cysticercosis, tuberculosis, HIV, and cryptococcus are acquired intracranial infections typically associated with calcifications. However, intracranial calcification caused by a bacterial brain abscess is rare. Here, we present a rare case of intracranial calcification caused by a b...

A fifty year old man presented to a psychiatric unit with catatonia. He was later found to have a brain abscess in the left frontal region. Brain abscess has not been previously reported to be associated with catatonia.