INTRODUCTION The present report describes a case of sepsis due to Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with no animal exposure, associated with concomitant bronchopneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. CASE PRESENTATION A 54-year-old Caucasian man presented to an emergency room with a three-day history of chest pain, fever, ...

We report the case of a 20-year-old woman who had percutaneous closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with a 17-mm Rashkind occluder when she was 4 years of age. A small residual shunt was noted on color-flow Doppler echocardiography immediately after the procedure and at 6-month follow-up. Because of the lack of hemodynamic complications, no additional intervention was performed. Sixteen ...

Seventy-two Pasteurella multocida strains collected from calves with bronchopneumonia were examined. An analysis of the polymorphism of DNA restrictive fragments with the use of the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis technique of contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis was made. Philogenetic relatedness among the examined strains was calculated by the unweighted pair-group meth...

Right sided infectious endocarditis (IE) by involvement of tricuspid valve is mainly associated with cardiac malformations or intravenous drug use. Occurrence of right-sided IE in children with structurally normal heart is exceptionallyrare. We report the case of 9-year-old child presenting with bronchopneumonia and septicaemia who was diagnosed to have native tricuspid valve staphylococcal end...

Tinidazole as a single drug therapy given in a single dose daily for 5 or 3 days was put to rigorous test in malnourished children. Of 25 children with amoebic liver abscess, 23 were cured. The 2 remaining cases required surgical drainage followed by other amoebicides, one subsequently dying from complicating bronchopneumonia.

OBJECT The aim of the study was to identify diagnoses that are confused with pulmonary tuberculosis in children. DESIGN Prospective, investigative clinical study. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital and an urban tuberculosis clinic in an area with a very high incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (> 800 new cases/100,000/year). PATIENTS Children suspected of having tuberculosis, childre...

BACKGROUND There is conflicting data regarding the efficacy of tulathromycin for the treatment of foals with bronchopneumonia. HYPOTHESES Tulathromycin is effective for the treatment of bronchopneumonia in foals and noninferior to the combination of azithromycin and rifampin. ANIMALS A total of 240 foals on a farm endemic for infections caused by Rhodococcus equi. METHODS In a controlled,...