Meningitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus lentus associated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt in a young infant
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Background: Bacterial meningitis is a disease with a high morbidity worldwide, being aneurological emergency in which a diagnosis and timely treatment reduce the complications related to mortality. Staphylococcus lentus is a gram positive, coagulase negative, commensal bacterium that colonizes the skin of certain animal species, especially food producers, causing an infection very rarely in humans.
Clinical case: We present the case of a minor infant who underwent a ventriculoperitoneal shunt due to congenital hydrocephalus, which presented an alteration in the state of consciousness due to a convulsive state in which meningitis and bacteraemia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus lentus was confirmed, for which 21 days of antibiotics were completed, with discharge after 36 days of hospitalization.
Conclusion: The bacterial meningitis is a disease with a high mortality in the pediatric population, so it needs a timely multidisciplinary intervention, as well as empirical antibiotic according to local epidemiology and paraclinics to establish the infectious etiology
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