Dehority Walter, Uchiyama Satoshi, Khosravi Arya, Nizet Victor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, and Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, 3020 Children's Way, MC 5041, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Dec;44(12):4613-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01724-06. Epub 2006 Oct 25.
Responsible for many childhood diseases, group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a rare cause of central nervous system infections. We report the case of a previously healthy boy with brain abscesses caused by M/emm type 12 GAS and review the case in the context of the published literature and recent epidemiological data.
A群链球菌(GAS)是许多儿童疾病的病原体,却是中枢神经系统感染的罕见病因。我们报告一例先前健康的男孩因M/emm 12型GAS引发脑脓肿的病例,并结合已发表的文献和最新的流行病学数据对该病例进行回顾。