lung abscess/headache

Cutibacterium (C) acnes, a Gram-positive bacterium that is part of the commensal flora, is increasingly noticed as an opportunistic pathogen in serious infections in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. The indolent character and often difficult identification because of its slow

A 10-year-old African American girl with sickle-cell anemia developed headaches and seizures associated with hypertension during hospitalization for a pulmonary abscess. Hypertension developed after multiple transfusions, associated with abnormally high hematocrit and headache. Magnetic resonance

BACKGROUND Streptococcus milleri can occasionally cause serious septicemia, that is often complicated by abscesses, particularly pulmonary. METHODS A 12.5 year-old boy was admitted because he had suffered from fever for 6 days. He also had headache, diffuse abdominal pain, chills and a cough.

A 25-year-old man presented with symptoms of syncope, cough, headache and hemoptysis. Cranial MR and venography showed thrombus formation in the right transverse sinus and superior sagittal sinus. Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) showed an embolic thrombus in the right pulmonary

A 25-year-old man, who was slightly immunosuppressed, presented headache and right motor weakness due to multiple brain abscesses disseminated from lung abscess. They were diagnosed, by bacteriological examination, as nocardial brain abscesses (nocardia asteroides) 4 weeks after the first operation.

We report an analysis of clinical course of 18 patients presenting with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis. Community acquired infection was caused by Methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) in 11 patients. MSSA in 3 and Methicillin Resistant S. aureus strains (MRSA) in 4 patients, were the etiologic

Nocardia species are aerobic, gram positive filamentous branching bacteria that have the potential to cause localized or disseminated infection. Nocardiosis is a rare disease that usually affects immunocompromised patients and presents as either pulmonary, cutaneous or disseminated nocardiosis.

Although vancomycin administration is recommended for the treatment of infective endocarditis (IE) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), it is unclear whether an alternative agent, daptomycin, can be used to treat IE with pulmonary complications. A 26-year-old female who had

Actinomyces cardiffensis is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-spore-forming rod that was first identified by Hall et al. (Hall V. et al. (2002) J Clin Microbiol 40:3427-31). Here we report a case of bacteremia with liver and lung abscesses associated with A. cardiffensis. A 67-year-old man was