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Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia as a cause of brain abscesses secondary to chronic suppurative otitis media

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A patient with a cholesteatoma secondary to chronic suppurative otitis media developed infective complications including cerebellar and cerebellopontine abscesses.Burkholderia cepacia was isolated from ear swabs, infected tissue and surgical pus on five occasions over a six-month period. Despite exhibiting three different antibiotic susceptibility profiles, all five isolates were confirmed as clonally indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. To the best of the authors' knowledge there are no previous reports ofBurkholderia cepacia causing infection of the adult central nervous system.

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Hobson, R., Gould, I. & Govan, J. Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia as a cause of brain abscesses secondary to chronic suppurative otitis media. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14, 908–911 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691499

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