COVID-19 infection leading to lethal spondylodiscitis with spinal abscess

Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae with scleritis, spondylodiscitis and spinal epidural abscess.

Mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT) have a low incidence as pathogens in human pathology. The most frequent clinical expression is the disseminated disease in subjects with compromised cellular immunity. Bacteriological characteristics in culture can generate confusion with other pathogens, which delays the appropriate diagnosis and treatment. We present a case of a disseminated infecti...

Nutrition and Infection with COVID-19

Febrile myoclonus jerk in children with COVID-19 infection: letter to editor

Dear Editor The new coronavirus infection has spread rapidly around the world. The range of symptoms of this disease in children is from asymptomatic infection to severe respiratory or multiple systems failure, the common symptoms of which were different in each peak and in each strain. In Omicron strain fever without localize sign; involvement of the nervous system (seizures, headache, encepha...

Is COVID-19 Infection Transmitted Through Food?

 Coronavirus disease (COVID) has had a growing outbreak around the world. China reported COVID-19 infection for the first time in December 2019. Symptoms of this disease often include respiratory symptoms, but gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea) were also reported in COVID-19 infection. Coronavirus transmits through direct droplets, contact, or fomites. However, other mod...

Spinal cord infection: myelitis and abscess formation.

PURPOSE Our purpose was to describe the MR findings and evolution of spinal cord abscess and to define those MR features that allow differentiation of cord infection from other intramedullary abnormalities. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the MR studies of all patients in whom intramedullary spinal cord abscess was proved either by blood or cerebrospinal fluid culture or by serologic exam...

Noncontiguous multiple-level brucellar spondylodiscitis with an epidural abscess.

A 57-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of low back pain with decreased range of motion, fever, chills, and sweating, especially at night. The lumbar and thoracic spine was tender, and his neck was stiff, with fi xed fl exion. His white blood cell count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were 5,500/mm3 and 25mm/h, respectively. The brucella capture test result was positive (1:320). M...