Karmakar P S, Chatterjee S, Mitra R, Bari R, Ray M K, Ghosh A, Ghosh A
Department of Medicine, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata-700 020.
JNM College of Medicine, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2013 Mar;61(3):206-9.
Among the various etiologies of peripheral neuropathy, S. aureus is a rare cause that is not even mentioned in standard textbooks. Here we like to report three clinical scenarios where patients with different manifestations of S. aureus infection developed peripheral neuropathy presenting as quadriparesis, which subsided gradually with control of infection and supportive care. No other known causes of peripheral neuropathy were present in these cases.
