Nonsurgical cure of brain abscess in a neonate.

A 7-day-old girl was found to have meningitis due to Staphylococcus aureus and a left parietal brain abscess. Six weeks treatment with intravenous methicillin resulted in resolution of her right hemiparesis and brain abscess. This is one of the youngest patients successfully treated by medical therapy alone. The case suggests that in carefully selected, closely monitored infants, medical therapy alone can be successful.