Community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa meningitis − A rare case presentation

Abstract

Introduction

Gram-negative bacterial meningitis has a high mortality rate. We present a case of community acquired bacterial meningitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa with a successful outcome following prolonged intravenous antibiotics.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an uncommon Gram-negative bacterial cause of meningitis. In its rarity, it has no well-established optimal antibiotic therapy (2).

Patients with the above face a severe clinical picture − of the etiological agents, Gram-negative bacilli have the highest fatality rate; 54%.(3) Therefore, the occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa meningitis in the absence of predisposing factors is both an exceptionally rare, and dangerous, finding (3) – here, we describe such a case.