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Disseminated <i>Rothia kristinae</i> Infection: A Case Highlighting an Emerging Pathogen. [PDF]

Case Rep Med
Rothia kristinae is usually found in the environment, on normal skin and mucosal surfaces of humans, and there is a limited medical literature available on this organism and its pathogenicity. Our case describes a woman in her early 70’s with left hip osteoarthritis presented with generalized weakness, fever, and altered mentation associated with left ...
Dormire K, Kamatam S, Roy M, Ahmad S.
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Zoonotic <i>Streptococcus canis</i> Bacteremia Following a Dog Scratch in an Elderly Patient With a Nonconditional Pacemaker. [PDF]

Case Rep Infect Dis
Streptococcus canis is a β‐hemolytic Group G streptococcus commonly found in the microbiome of dogs and cats and is an uncommon cause of invasive human infection. Although typically regarded as a veterinary pathogen, S. canis has been reported to cause bacteremia, endocarditis, and other severe infections in humans, particularly in older adults with ...
Alachraf K, Trouten P, Thayer J.
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In Vivo Emergence of Oxacillin Resistance in mecA-Negative MSSA Endocarditis With Metastatic Infection. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is particularly challenging when complicated by infective endocarditis (IE), metastatic spread, or evolving antimicrobial resistance. We describe a 76‐year‐old woman with poorly‐controlled diabetes who presented with bilateral knee septic arthritis and persistent methicillin‐sensitive S.
Bosch L, Carletti A, Awoyemi T, Al-Kazaz M, Nemeth AJ, Young D.   +5 more
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The effect of intradiscal vancomycin powder in the prevention of postoperative discitis: RCT study

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020
Background: Post discectomy discitis, although relatively uncommon (4%), is regarded as the most disabling cause of failed back surgery. We aimed to show the effect of intradiscal Vancomycin powder in reducing or preventing postoperative discitis in ...
Ghazwan A Hasan, Reda A. Sheta, MD, Hayder Q. Raheem, Luay M. Al–Naser   +3 more
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Análise radiológica comparativa entre espondilodiscite tuberculosa e inespecífica Análisis radiológico comparativo entre espondilolistesis tuberculosa y no específica Comparative radiological analysis between spondylodiscitis tuberculosis and nonspecific

Coluna/Columna, 2010
OBJETIVO: comparar as imagens radiológicas da espondilodiscite tuberculosa e a inespecífica. MÉTODOS: estudo retrospectivo mediante revisão de prontuários e exames de imagem dos pacientes portadores de discite inespecífica e específica pelo Micobacterium
Bruno Brasil do Couto, Ricardo Shigueaki Galhego Umeta, Maria Fernanda Silber Caffaro, Robert Meves, Elcio Landim, Osmar Avanzi   +5 more
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Gentamycin injection in disc space during lumbar discectomy (aiming to prevent post - operative discitis)

مجلة كلية الطب, 2015
Background: Postoperative discitis is uncommon 4%, but it is the most disabling postoperative complication after lumbar discectomy. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of intradiscal Gentamycin in prevention of lumbar discitis post operatively ...
Ali T. AbdulWahid
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Cervical, Mediastinal, and Pericardial Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis: The Importance of Source Control. [PDF]

Case Rep Infect Dis
A 47‐year‐old healthy man developed disseminated coccidioidomycosis involving his mediastinal and cervical lymph nodes that was complicated by pericardial involvement despite continued fluconazole for primary pulmonary infection. Although he subsequently received an aggressive antifungal regimen with voriconazole and liposomal amphotericin B, he did ...
Grant L, Assar S, Taghizadeh F, Hutto J, Ampel NM.   +4 more
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Rare presentation of vertebral discitis, osteomyelitis and polyarticular septic arthritis due to disseminated Neisseria gonorrhea infection

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020
Disseminated Neisseria gonorrhea (N. Gonorrhoeae) infection can present with polyarticular involvement. Acute vertebral discitis/osteomyelitis due to this organism infection has been rarely reported.
Moni Roy, Sharjeel Ahmad, Ashish Kumar Roy   +2 more
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A pacemaker lead infection as a complication of a discitis post fall in an elderly: A case report

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023
The population around the world is growing in age, and taking care of the elderly has become a medical challenge as new pathologies, risk factors, treatments, and approaches are being explored. One of the most important chapters that should be focused on
Cima Hamieh, Rania Sakr, Mahmoud El Hussein   +2 more
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The role of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of postoperative spondylodiscitis [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2004
Background. Spondylodiscitis, discitis associated with vertebral osteomyelitis may follow disc-removal surgery. A targeted successful treatment of spinal infections requires clinical and laboratory data that are completed by the contribution of imaging ...
Stošić-Opinćal Tatjana L., Perić Vesna, Grujičić Danica M., Gavrilović Svetlana, Golubičić Ivana V.   +4 more
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