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Brain abscess caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Journal of Neurosurgery, 08/13/09
Vives CHG et al. – This 24–year–old soldier had a history of polytrauma caused by firearm missiles of a fragmentation weapon. He was referred to the Hospital Militar Central, where multiple shrapnel wounds in the head, face, thorax, and extremities were found. To the authors' knowledge, there have been no reported cases in the worldwide literature of brain abscess by this infectious agent.
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