INTRODUCTION Mycoplasma hominis is mostly known for causing urogenital infections. However, it has rarely been described as an agent of brain abscess. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of M. hominis brain abscess in a 41-year-old Caucasian woman following uterus curettage. The diagnosis was obtained by 16S rDNA amplification, cloning and sequencing from the abscess pus, and confirmed by a ...

BACKGROUND Diseases of nose and paranasal sinuses can complicate to involve the orbit and other surrounding structures because of their close proximity. These diseases are usually infective or can be neoplastic in origin. METHOD All the patients presenting in ENT or Eye Departments of Ayub Teaching Hospital during the one year study period who had complicated nose or paranasal sinus disease w...

Computed tomography (CT) was used for diagnosis of brain abscess in a 6-month-old, Japanese black calf presented with neurological dysfunction, compulsive circling and vision disturbance. CT images showed asymmetric lateral ventricles, and presence of intra-cranial multiple low absorption lesions surrounded by capsule suggestive of abscess in the right cerebral hemisphere. Postmortem examinatio...

Nocardia cerebral abscess is rare, constituting approximately 1-2% of all cerebral abscesses. Mortality for a cerebral abscess of Nocardia is three times higher than that of other bacterial cerebral abscesses, therefore, early diagnosis and therapy is important. Nocardia cerebral abscess is generally occur among immunocompromised patients, and critical infection in immunocompetent patients is e...

the brain parenchyma, and this requires prompt administration of high dose antibiotics and surgical drainage. Brain abscesses frequently arise secondary to hematogenous dissemination, by direct inoculation (trauma or surgery), by contiguous dissemination from an extracranial site or as a complication of meningitis. However, the development of a brain abscess at the site of a prior intracerebral...

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...

We report a 22-year-old man who presented with a 3 week history of left-sided headache, orbital pain and epiphora progressing to diplopia. He was being treated by his general practitioner with a β-blocker and simple analgesia for possible diagnosis of cluster headaches. Initial examination revealed a reduction in visual acuity and poor abduction and upward gaze. Routine blood tests were normal....

Problem statement: A brain abscess presenting after an Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) is an extremely rare occurrence. Diagnosis in this setting is difficult, given the absence of key clinical features, such as neurologic deficit and headaches. Since a delay in the diagnosis of a brain abscess leads to poor outcomes, there should be a high index of suspicion for abscess in patients developing fe...

The sinuses are common sites of infection in children, and if clinical presentation is delayed, there is a high risk of complications including intracranial spread. We present a case of a 5-year-old boy who presented with non-specific symptoms of sinusitis. He went on to develop osteomyelitis of the frontal bone and a subperiosteal abscess known as Pott's puffy tumour. Whilst computed tomograph...