Presentation
A 67-year-old male with chest pain, headache and double vision with a history of latent syphilis presented with multiple rim-enhancing brain lesions on MRI. A Gram stain of a brain biopsy shows beaded gram-positive rods, and a Kinyoun stain shows acid-fast bacilli in the brain.
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Author Information
Zachary Walter, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University.
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