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eISSN: 2581-9615 || CODEN: WJARAI || Impact Factor 8.2 ||  CrossRef DOI

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First case of Streptococcus pluranimalium meningitis isolated at Kibogora district hospital

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Jean Claude Uwimana * and Innocent Nzabahimana

1 Kibogora District Hospital, Rwanda.
2 National Reference Laboratory, Rwanda.
 
Case Study
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 09(02), 169-171
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0050
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0050
 
Received on 13 January 2021; revised on 09 February 2021; accepted on 11 February 2021
 
Streptococcus pluranimalium has mainly been found to cause infections in animals and was rarely isolated in humans. Very few cases of streptococcus pluranimalium have been reported in the literature. We report a first case of streptococcus pluranimalium meningitis in a pediatric patient. This patient was treated successfully with a combination of 3rd generation cephalosporin and chloramphenicol since her first day of admission. Only 4 of the reported human infections caused by Streptococcus pluranimalium were pediatric cases. We didn’t find neither adult nor pediatric cases of meningitis caused by this new novel species of Streptococcus pluranimalium. Clinical doctors have to remember that a rare pathogen like Streptococcus pluranimalium isolated primarily in animals can be a causative agent of human infection. More diagnostic methods are needed to detect early what could be rare causative germs of human infection. And when streptococcus pluranimalium is isolated, the first line antibiotics will be vancomycin, carbapenems, linezolid, aminoglycosides, and 3rd generation cephalosporins.
 
Streptococcus pluranimalium; Meningitis; Pediatric; Treatment
 
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Jean Claude Uwimana and Innocent Nzabahimana. First case of Streptococcus pluranimalium meningitis isolated at Kibogora district hospital. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 9(2), 169-171. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.2.0050

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