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Case Reports
. 2008 Mar;46(3):1141-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01628-07. Epub 2008 Jan 3.

Ureaplasma urealyticum meningitis in an adult patient

Walter Geissdörfer  1 , Günter Sandner, Stefan John, André Gessner, Christoph Schoerner, Klaus Schröppel
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Case Reports

Ureaplasma urealyticum meningitis in an adult patient

Walter Geissdörfer et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Mar.

Abstract

A 38-year-old patient developed meningitis after a complicated kidney transplantation and organ rejection. Ureaplasma urealyticum was identified as the etiological agent by molecular and microbiological analyses of the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was successfully treated with doxycycline and chloramphenicol. This is the first report of Ureaplasma urealyticum meningitis in an adult.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Microcolonies (white arrows) of U. urealyticum on A7 agar after 18 h of anaerobic incubation at 37°C. Note the cellular debris of CSF granulocytes in the background (black arrow). Shown is a phase contrast microscopy image at ×800 magnification (scale bar, 25 μm).
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