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Aerococcus sanguinicola is a bacterium that can cause urinary tract infections and on rare occasions infective endocarditis (IE). The prognosis of IE caused by aerococci is generally favourable despite that the patients are typically old and have multiple comorbidities. Here we report a case of A. sanguinicola native valve aortic IE in a 68-year-ol...
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Monkeypox is the latest reemerging zoonosis worldwide. Anyone is susceptible to contracting this infection; however, the clinical presentation may be atypical in a particularly vulnerable group that identifies as men who have sex with men. Herein, we present two cases of patients diagnosed with monkeypox infection, both of whom were also co-infecte...
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With increased use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, screening for latent tuberculosis infection is more important than ever. However, even with appropriate screening, reactivation of tuberculosis can occur in patients who have had significant epidemiological exposures. Herein, we present a case of a seventy-four-year-old woman with severe ...
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The authors present the case of a bloodstream infection and sepsis due to Dietzia cinnamea in a severely malnourished patient with small bowel obstruction and pelvic abscess. The organism was identified with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The authors discuss the characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, a...
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Background Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic fungal disease, caused by Cryptococcus grubii, C. neoformans, and infrequently by C. gattii. [1], [2] Infection occur in patients with immunosuppression or with intact immunity. Dissemination mostly occurs in the lungs and meninges, but also the skin, bones and the prostate, with very high mortality rat...
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Aureimonas altamirensis was isolated from a wound culture and initially misidentified as Brucella melitensis by the VITEK® 2 system. The VITEK-MS did not provide identification whereas the Bruker MALDI-ToF MS system and 16-S sequencing revealed a clear identification, which highlights the importance of inclusion of species in databases for accurate...
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Brucellosis is one of the most prevalent zoonotic infections in the Middle East. The disease may present with a range of symptoms from a simple febrile illness to severe invasive infections affecting different organ systems (meningitis, osteomyelitis). In this paper we present an eleven-year-old girl who was diagnosed with “idiopathic bone marrow a...
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Mycobacterium abscessus is one of the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), which can cause many clinical spectra, predominantly pulmonary infections followed by skin and soft tissue infections. The prevalence of Mycobacterium abscessus infections has been growing worldwide over the last two decades. Urinary tract infection (UTI) secondary to M. absce...
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Myocarditis is a rare complication of toxoplasmosis, especially in immunocompetent individuals. We present a case of a 28-year-old man with a history of fever and chest pain suggestive of myocarditis. Fever, along with lymphadenopathy, electrocardiography, imaging, and serologic testing, showed Toxoplasma gondii as the probable etiology. An excelle...
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Purpose To describe a novel case of marginal keratitis following COVID 19 vaccination. Methods Case report Results A 68-year-old female received the Moderna COVID 19 vaccine. She then developed ocular irritation and peripheral corneal opacities that are characteristic of marginal keratitis. Her symptoms responded well to steroid and antibiotic opht...
