Intracranial Mycoplasma hominis infection following emergent craniectomy

Authors

Zahra Qamar, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Matthew Pattengill, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Maliha Ahmed, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Bryan Hess, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-8-2021

Comments

This article is the author’s final published version in IDCases, Volume 25, June 2021, Article number e01175.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01175. Copyright © Qamar et al.

Abstract

We present a case of a young healthy female who developed recurrent cranial wound infections after a traumatic injury, the etiologic organism finally identified as Mycoplasma hominis, an uncommon and difficult to isolate bacterium.

Recommended Citation

Qamar, Zahra; Tjoumakaris, Stavropoula; Pattengill, Matthew; Ahmed, Maliha; and Hess, Bryan, "Intracranial Mycoplasma hominis infection following emergent craniectomy" (2021). Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 9.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/didem/9

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Language

English