Brain abscess: clinical, radiological and microbiological data for a retrospective UK cohort

These files are the supporting metadata for a retrospective analysis of a clinical cohort of adults with a diagnosis of bacterial brain abscess at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in the UK. The study was locally approved as a clinical audit.The xls file contains the clinical metadata reported by our study.We have provided a STROBE statement (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology)The supplementary data file (pdf) contains the following information:Suppl Figure 1: CONSORT diagram for identification of a cohort of adults with brain abscesses from a tertiary referral hospital in the UK. Suppl Fig 2: Duration of antibiotic therapy for adults treated for bacterial brain abscessSuppl Table 1: Association between S. milleri infection and other patient characteristics in a cohort of 39 adults with positive microbiology diagnosis of bacterial brain abscessSuppl Table 2: Number of surgical interventions undertaken for 47 adults presenting with brain abscess