Chukwudozie, Onyeka S.
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Lassa virus (LASV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that has plagued the Sub-Saharan part of Africa, precisely Nigeria where various pathogenic strains with varied genomic isoforms have been identified. The human lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1 (LAMP1) is alternately required for the micropinocytosis of LASV. Therefore, it is of interest to u...
Malhothra, Shalini Mandal, Sabyasachi Meena, Rajkumari Patel, Priti Bhatia, Nirmaljit Kaur Duggal, Nandini
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Zygomycosis and aspergillosis are two serious fungal infections that are commonly seen in immunocompromised patients. Since both of these infections involve fungi that invade vessels of the arterial system, an early and rapid diagnosis by direct examination of KOH mounts of the relevant clinical sample can clinch the diagnosis. Here, we present a c...
Yacouba, Abdourahamane Congo, Malika Dioma, Gérard Komonsira Somlare, Hermann Coulidiaty, David Ouattara, Kalifa Sangare, Lassana
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Background Several studies have compared the use of dried blot spot (DBS) as an alternative to plasma specimens, mainly using Whatman 903 cards as filter paper. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of Whatman FTA card (FTA card) specimens for HIV-1 viral load testing compared to plasma specimens using two real-time PCR assays manufactured ...
Bagge, Kristian Pedersen, Louise Lisby, Jan Gorm
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Here we describe a community-acquired pneumonia with Streptococcus pyogenes , group A following a common cold caused by human metapneumovirus. The patient, a 58-year-old woman with no prior medical history, developed respiratory failure and multi-organ dysfunction caused by streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. The patient was admitted to the intensi...
Legaria, M.C. García, S.D. Tudanca, V. Barberis, C. Cipolla, L. Cornet, L. Famiglietti, A.M.R. Stecher, D. Vay, C.A.
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Clostridium ramosum is an enteric anaerobic, endospore-forming, gram-positive rod with a low GC content that is rarely associated with disease in humans. We present a case of C. ramosum bacteraemia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second case of C. ramosum bacteraemia in an elderly patient presenting with fever, abdominal pain and bilious...
Smith, Melvyn Zuckerman, Mark Kandanearatchi, Apsara Thompson, Richard Davenport, Mark
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Biliary atresia (BA) is a progressive disease affecting infants resulting in inflammatory obliteration and fibrosis of the extra- and intra-hepatic biliary tree. BA may be grouped into type 1 isolated; type 2 syndromic, where other congenital malformations may be present; type 3 cystic BA, where there is cyst formation within an otherwise obliterat...
Soelberg, Kerstin K. Danielsen, Trille K. L. Martin-Iguacel, Raquel Justesen, Ulrik S.
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Introduction Arcobacter butzleri is attracting increasing interest due to its possible pathogenic properties. Researchers have described cases in which A. butzleri is isolated in stool samples from patients with gastrointestinal symptoms, mostly diarrhoea. The relevance of adding our case to the literature lies in its description of recurrent A. bu...
Vijayakumar, Saranya Wattal, Chand J.K., Oberoi Bhattacharya, Sanjay Vasudevan, Karthick Anandan, Shalini Walia, Kamini Veeraraghavan, Balaji
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Carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii is due to bla OXA-23, which is endemic in India. Recently, the sporadic presence of bla OXA-58 as well as the occurrence of dual carbapenemases were observed. The mobility as well as the dissemination of these resistance genes were mainly mediated by various mobile genetic elements. The present study...
Chen, Chieh-Fan Tsai, Tung-Yuan Yu, Chen-Hui Cheng, Hsiang-Lan Yeh, Ting-Yu
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The studies of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have mainly focused on epidemiological and clinical features of patients, but transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 virus after patients have recovered is still poorly understood. Here we report a case with prolonged viral shedding of COVID-19 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. This patient started to show myalgi...
Martínez-Carranza, Enrique García-Reyes, Selene González-Valdez, Abigail Soberón-Chávez, Gloria
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In this work we analysed the whole genome extended multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST) of four Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains that are characterized by being virulent despite having a defective Las quorum-sensing (QS) system, and compare them with the wgMLST of the PAO1 and PA14 type strains. This comparison was done to determine whether there was ...
