Idiopathic pontine Streptococcus salivarius abscess in an immunocompetent patient: management lessons through case illustration and literature review

AL Mandapat, CS Eddleman… - … journal of infectious …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… Since then, successful treatment of brainstem abscess has included surgical drainage or …
a solitary pontine abscess in an immunocompetent woman due to Streptococcus salivarius

Pontine abscess with initial treatment failure following infectious endocarditis with Streptococcus salivarius

FC Knudtzen, M Lynge, S Gaini - Case Reports, 2015 - casereports.bmj.com
… surgery, brain stem abscesses are still associated with a high mortality rate.3 We present a
case of a patient with a pontine abscess following endocarditis with Streptococcus salivarius. …

Streptococcus salivarius meningitis: a spontaneous case in a 74-year-old man

U Jovanovic, M Freyer, JG Heckmann - Acta Neurologica Belgica, 2019 - Springer
… In contrast, meningitis caused by Streptococcus salivarius (S. salivarius) is rare, and barely
70 … salivarius meningitis in an older person without risk factors and interventions who was …

[HTML][HTML] Brain abscess of odontogenic origin in children: a systematic review of the literature with emphasis on therapeutic aspects and a new case presentation

C Lajolo, G Favia, L Limongelli… - Acta …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brain abscesses (BAs) are rare but life-threatening infections. BAs of an odontogenic origin
should always be considered as a possible aetiological factor, especially when other …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptogenic Pontine Abscess Treated With Stereotactic Aspiration: A Case Report

TM Ngo, A Okabe, KB Nguyen, A Tong, J Chang, F Lui - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… We present a rare case of pontine abscess in a 54-year-old … pontine abscess that posed
diagnostic challenges due to the absence of typical symptoms associated with brain abscess

Occurrence and Pathogenicity of the Streptococcus milleri Group

J Gossling - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1988 - academic.oup.com
streptococci were from dental abscesses; in three cases of submandibular abscess following
dental extraction, these streptococci … region~ and one in the pons. From the five series in …

[HTML][HTML] Hakuna mycotic aneurysm, Streptococcus salivarius does not always mean “no worries”

S Ahmad, D Song, JVM Reyes, A Whiting… - Annals of Medicine and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… anatomic explanation or myocardial abscess or new partial dehiscence of prosthetic valve
… Subsequent Brain MRI demonstrated an acute infarct of the left pons as well as multifocal …

Identification of Pathogenic Microflora and Its Sensitivity to Antibiotics in Cases of the Odontogenic Purulent Periostitis and Abscesses in the Oral Cavity

I Mochalov, M Kryvtsova, A Chobey… - Prague Medical …, 2023 - karolinum.cz
Streptococcus sanguinis (they normally colonize a tooth enamel), Streptococcus salivarius
… (2021a) showed that odontogenic abscesses of the maxillofacial area are mainly caused by …

Brain abscess

N King - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2010 - Elsevier
… Case series reviewing all causes of bacterial abscess report Streptococcus spp. as the
most commonly isolated organisms from abscess material, blood cultures, or both. An abscess

Clinical characteristics and outcome of brain abscess: systematic review and meta-analysis

MC Brouwer, JM Coutinho, D van de Beek - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
… on brain abscesses published between … abscesses, included less than 50% extra-axial
CNS infections (empyema) without brain abscess, and did not solely report on brain abscesses