Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male

Trager Hintze; Michelle Steed; Eric Sievers; John T Bagwell; Nicola Selfa

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616

Primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum successfully treated with ceftriaxone in a healthy adult male

IDCases. 2019 Aug 5:18:e00616. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00616. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Trager Hintze¹, Michelle Steed^{2

3}, Eric Sievers³, John T Bagwell⁴, Nicola Selfa⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy Practice, The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, 1110 N. Stonewall Ave., Oklahoma City, OK, 73117, USA.
² Department of Pharmacy Practice, Idaho State University College of Pharmacy, 921 S. 8th Ave, Stop 8333, Pocatello, ID, 83209-8333, USA.
³ Department of Pharmacy, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, 3100 Channing Way, Idaho Falls, ID, 83404, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, 3100 Channing Way, Idaho Falls, ID, 83404, USA.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, 3100 Channing Way, Idaho Falls, ID, 83404, USA.

Abstract

Fusobacterium nucleatum is a rod-shaped gram-negative obligate anaerobe; this organism, and other anaerobes, are usually not a part of the culture performed for a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample. To date, four cases of Fusobacterium meningitis in adults have been published. We report successful treatment of a case of primary meningitis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an otherwise healthy 72-year-old male.

Keywords: Bacterial meningitis; Ceftriaxone; Fusobacterium infections; Fusobacterium nucleatum.

Publication types

Case Reports