Feculent meningitis: polymicrobial meningitis in colorectal surgery

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2000 Nov;38(3):169-70. doi: 10.1016/s0732-8893(00)00184-x.

Abstract

Polymicrobial anaerobic meningitis is a rare event secondary to a contiguous infection in the head or neck. Anaerobic meningitis due to a meningo-intestinal fistula is a rare event with only two cases reported in the literature. We describe a new case of adult polymicrobial anaerobic meningitis after colorectal surgery and radiotherapy and review the previous two cases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic / isolation & purification*
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / complications
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / etiology*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Rectal Fistula / complications*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Rectal Neoplasms / surgery*