Identification of the cause of a brain abscess by direct 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing.

J Infect

Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Dundee Medical School, Ninewells Hospital, UK.

Published: January 1999

We report the case of a young man who apparently suffered successive episodes of meningitis and cerebral abscess over a 1-month period, both of which were diagnosed by two different molecular approaches; PCR for Neisseria meningitidis IS1106 from CSF and 16S rRNA gene sequencing on a specimen of brain pus. In each case, cultures were negative due to prior antibiotic therapy.

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