Palpebral Infection with Bacillus Anthracis Complicated Cerebral Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Diagnosis not to be Ignored!

Authors: Oujidi Y , Bensaid A , El melhaoui I , Bkiyar H and Housni B

DOI: 10.23880/cdoaj-16000234

Volume 6, Issue 1

Abstract

Anthrax is an anthropozoonosis due to a negative gram bacillus called Bacillus anthracis, palpebral localisation is rare in clinical practice and poses a problem of differential diagnosis, we report the case of a 5 year old girl who presented an under palpebral pustule evoluated into peri orbital ulceration with necrosis making suspect a palpebral localizations of anthrax the patient is complicated by CIVD associated with a hemorrhagic stroke [meningeal hemorrhage associated with a cerebral hematoma], the evolution was unfavorable with the death of the patient.

Keywords: Anthrax; Anthropozoonosis; CIVD; Hemorrhagic

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