Staphylococcus lugdunensis Endocarditis Presenting with Brain Abscesses and Temporal Vision Deficits
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase‐negative staphylococcal bacterium (CoNS) that colonizes the skin. While infectious endocarditis (IE) caused by S. lugdunensis is rare, it is noteworthy because it has been associated with an aggressive clinical course.
Matthew S. Linz +3 more
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Etiologic Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis by Broad-Range Polymerase Chain Reaction: A 3-Year Experience [PDF]
, 2017 We analyzed surgically resected endocardial specimens from 49 patients by broad-range PCR. PCR results were compared with (1) results of previous blood cultures, (2) results of culture and Gram staining of resected specimens, and (3) clinical data (Duke ...
Altwegg, Martin +5 more
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The genome of a pathogenic rhodococcus : cooptive virulence underpinned by key gene acquisitions [PDF]
, 2010 We report the genome of the facultative intracellular parasite Rhodococcus equi, the only animal pathogen within the biotechnologically important actinobacterial genus Rhodococcus. The 5.0-Mb R.
Bentley, Stephen D. +23 more
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An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long‐Standing Symptoms
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Whipple’s disease is a rare bacterial infection that is often present for years prior to diagnosis. Symptoms are nonspecific in the early stages of presentation and are primarily gastrointestinal in nature. The disease may progress with more systemic symptoms including arthralgia, fever, lymphadenopathy, cardiovascular disease, and central nervous ...
Thomas Tuggle +4 more
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Infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers: an update [PDF]
, 2012 Infective endocarditis despite advances in diagnosis remains a common cause of hospitalization, with high morbidity and mortality rates. Through literature review it is possible to conclude that polymicrobial endocarditis occurs mainly in intravenous ...
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Isolated Knee Arthritis as Early and Only Symptom of Whipple’s Disease
Case Reports in Medicine, 2018 We report a case of isolated Whipple’s disease involving the knee of a 64-year-old female patient who presented recurrent monoarthritis whose origin was not clear.
Dario Giunchi +6 more
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Genome signatures, self-organizing maps and higher order phylogenies: a parametric analysis [PDF]
, 2007 Genome signatures are data vectors derived from the compositional statistics of DNA. The self-organizing map (SOM) is a neural network method for the conceptualisation of relationships within complex data, such as genome signatures.
Gatherer, Derek
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Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, Volume 50, Issue 6, December 2024.
Christine Anna Dambietz +7 more
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Environmental occurrence of the Whipple's disease bacterium (Tropheryma whippelii). [PDF]
, 1998 Whipple's disease is a systemic disorder in which a gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium is constantly present in infected tissues. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to culture this bacterium, it was eventually characterized by 16S rRNA gene analysis to
Ditton, H J +3 more
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Efficacy of Paromomycin-Chloroquine Combination Therapy in Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. [PDF]
, 2017 The 4-aminoquinoline chloroquine (CQ) is clinically used in combination with doxycycline to cure chronic Q fever, as it enhances the activity of the antibiotic against the causative bacterium Coxiella burnetii residing within macrophage phagolysosomes ...
Croft, Simon L +4 more
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