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Streptococcus pluranimalium infective endocarditis and brain abscess

IDCases, 2019
Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium of the heart typically seen in individuals with underlying risk factors. We report a rare case of Streptococcus pluranimalium bacteremia causing infective endocarditis and brain abscess.
Parikshit Duriseti, Jorge Fleisher
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A spatial epidemic model with site contamination [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
We introduce the effect of site contamination in a model for spatial epidemic spread and show that the presence of site contamination may have a strict effect on the model in the sense that it can make an otherwise subcritical process supercritical.
arxiv  

Discospondylitis as a consequence of jugular vein septic thrombophlebitis in a Standardbred gelding

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary This report describes the identification of C7‐T1 discospondylitis on myelography and confirmed on postmortem computed tomography and necropsy in a 4‐year‐old Standardbred gelding as the consequence of jugular vein catheterisation and secondary septic thrombophlebitis. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from both sites.
F. Payette, J. A. Demchur, K. W. Bills, D. G. Levine, A. L. Johnson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shewanella putrefaciens infective endocarditis

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Shewanella putrefaciens rarely causes infection in humans. In the last few decades a growing number of cases have been described. The following report outlines the case of a 40-year-old immunocompetent white man with S.
Jonathan Constant, Ivan Chernev, Eric Gomez   +2 more
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Aortic root abscess from Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis: Case report and brief review of the literature

Radiology Case Reports, 2022
Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that is associated with a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. One of the most serious complications of infective endocarditis is perivalvular and aortic root abscess formation. Due to the high
Quincy A. Hathaway, PhD, Aneri B. Balar, MD, Taylor A. Mallicoat, DO, Jeffery A. Voss, MD, Md Shahrier Amin, MD, PhD, Dhairya A. Lakhani, MD, Cathy Kim, MD   +6 more
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Network infection source identification under the SIRI model [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
We study the problem of identifying a single infection source in a network under the susceptible-infected-recovered-infected (SIRI) model. We describe the infection model via a state-space model, and utilizing a state propagation approach, we derive an algorithm known as the heterogeneous infection spreading source (HISS) estimator, to infer the ...
arxiv  

Effect of Contrast-Enhanced Echocardiograms on the Prognosis of Infective Endocarditis [PDF]

, 2020
Objective - Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infectious disease of the cardiac valves where bacteria colonize the valves; typically, via the formation of vegetations.
Arias, D., Eisenbrey, J. R., Forsberg, F., Halpern, E.   +3 more
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Endogenous Bacterial Endophthalmitis Complicating Hemodialysis Catheter‐Related Sepsis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Hemodialysis International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Endogenous endophthalmitis is an infrequent yet severe complication of hemodialysis catheter‐related sepsis. In this report, we present a case of endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis in a patient with hemodialysis catheter‐related sepsis.
Hui Guo, Dingyu Zhu, Yonglan Wang, Miao Ding, Yanyun Jiang, Xiaoxia Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tratamiento quirúrgico de la endocarditis infecciosa Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis

Revista Cubana de Cirugía, 2010
La cirugía constituye un ataque vigoroso a la incompetencia valvular que ocasiona las graves complicaciones hemodinámicas que se observan en la endocarditis infecciosa.
Milvio Ramírez López, Fidel Manuel Cáceres Lóriga, Horacio Pérez López   +2 more
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Cardiogenic and septic shock associated with aortic and mitral valve infective endocarditis caused by from a urinary tract infection

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2018
Abiotrophia defectiva , also known as nutritionally variant streptococcus, is part of the normal flora of the oral cavity and urogenital and intestinal tracts and is a rare cause of infective endocarditis.
Edward D Foley, Mohamed Ben Omran, Vaibhav Bora, Manuel R Castresana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source