World Journal of Pharmaceutical
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Abstract

A CASE REPORT: COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS MENINGITIS IN ADULTS

*S. Nader, A. Bentahila, M. Ztoute, Omar Askander and A. Benouda

ABSTRACT

Community meningitis due to Staphylococcus aureus is rare but severe. Reporting the first case in Morocco to SASM. A 48-year-old diabetic patient, was admitted to intensive care at the Cheikh Zaid Hospital (HCZ) in Rabat in a state of febrile coma. A lumbar puncture was performed, the direct examination showed gram-positive cocci associated with polycythemia and the culture had allowed the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus susceptible to methicillin (MSSA), the patient died shortly after his arrival. This is important to think about when faced with bacterial meningitis with Gram-positive Cocci on direct examination in a diabetic patient.

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