Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus meningitis in Peru

J Med Microbiol. 2013 Feb;62(Pt 2):335-337. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.050245-0. Epub 2012 Oct 25.

Abstract

A 59-year-old man with a history of fever, unsteadiness, hemiparesis, motor aphasia and consciousness disturbance was hospitalized for Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus meningitis. He denied contact with farm animals, but had a practice of consuming unpasteurized goats' cheese from an uncertain source.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cheese / microbiology*
  • Goats
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Pasteurization
  • Peru
  • Streptococcal Infections / diagnosis
  • Streptococcal Infections / microbiology*
  • Streptococcus equi / isolation & purification*