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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2358-2359, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2358-2359.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Streptococcal Meningitis Resulting from Contact with an Infected Horse

James Downar,1 Barbara M. Willey,1 Jeffrey W. Sutherland,2 Kelly Mathew,3 and Donald E. Low1,4,*

Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital,1 and Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Toronto,4 Toronto, and Family Medicine, Emergency & Obstetrics, William Osler Health Centre---Georgetown Campus, Georgetown,2 Canada, and Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England3

Received 23 January 2001/Returned for modification 11 March 2001/Accepted 8 April 2001

We report a case of group C streptococcal meningitis in a woman with a history of close animal contact as well as head trauma as a result of a kick by a horse. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures grew Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus, as did a throat culture taken from the colt that had kicked her 2 weeks prior to admission.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Rm. 1483, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X5. Phone: (416) 586-4435. Fax: (416) 586-8746. E-mail: dlow{at}mtsinai.on.ca.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2358-2359, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2358-2359.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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