<i>Salmonella</i> brain abscess in an infant

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Brain abscess
• infant
• intra-cranial infection
• salmonella