Intracranial Mycoplasma hominis infection following emergent craniectomy
Zahra Qamar,
Stavropoula Tjoumakaris,
Matthew A. Pettengill,
Maliha Ahmed,
Bryan Hess
Affiliations
Zahra Qamar
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States; Corresponding authors at: 1015 Chestnut Street, Suite 1020, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States.
Stavropoula Tjoumakaris
Department of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States
Matthew A. Pettengill
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States
Maliha Ahmed
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States; Corresponding authors at: 1015 Chestnut Street, Suite 1020, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States.
Bryan Hess
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States
We present a case of a young healthy female who developed recurrent cranial wound infections after a traumatic injury, the etiologic organism finally identified as Mycoplasma hominis, an uncommon and difficult to isolate bacterium.
