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Nocardial Cerebral Abscess in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
John C. Adair;
Anna C. Beck, MD;
Ronald I. Apfelbaum, MD;
J. Richard Baringer, MD
Arch Neurol. 1987;44(5):548-550.
Abstract
• Nocardial cerebral abscess is an unusual neurologic manifestation of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A 20-year-old woman with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome presented with headache and fever. Nocardia asteroides was cultured from a stereotaxic brain biopsy specimen. Despite antibiotic therapy to which the pathogen was sensitive, resolution of the abscess followed only after complete surgical excision.
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology (Mr Adair and Dr Baringer), Internal Medicine (Dr Beck), and Neurosurgery (Dr Apfelbaum), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 8, 1987.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Room 3R 210, 50 N Medical Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84132 (Dr Baringer).
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