Sporadic tuberculous meningoencephalitis

Infection. 1999 Nov-Dec;27(6):370-1. doi: 10.1007/s150100050047.

Abstract

Tuberculous meningoencephalitis in a 24-month-old boy is reported. He contracted the infection from his apparently healthy grandfather with unnoticed pulmonary tuberculosis, as suggested by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the isolated pathogen.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / microbiology
  • Child, Preschool
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • Genome, Bacterial
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / classification*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Sputum / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / diagnosis
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / transmission*