Samal Badhuli, Oommen Seema, Swami Anjali, Maskey Madhavi, Shastri Jayanthi
Department of Microbiology, TNMC and BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2009 Apr-Jun;52(2):269-70. doi: 10.4103/0377-4929.48943.
Brain abscess is an uncommon and serious life-threatening infection in children. Focal intracranial infections caused by Salmonella spp. in this age group are also rare. We report the case of a 4-month-old male infant with a frontoparietal brain abscess caused by Salmonella typhimurium, the presence of which was not suspected clinically.