Showing papers in "IDCases in 2023"

TL;DR: A 9-year-old Japanese boy who had no fever but vomited several times from days 1-4 of a COVID-19 infection had an afebrile seizure on the 8th day of his illness as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: The case of a 78-year-old man with a past medical history of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma s/p chemotherapy and Myasthenia Gravis on chronic mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) who presented with altered mental status and was found to have ring enhancing brain lesions was reported in this article .

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated all cases presented to the skin-diseases outpatient clinic at the reference hospital of Tropical Diseases Medicine in Khartoum state between January 2019 and January 2021.

TL;DR: In this article , a female patient developed acute Reiter's syndrome following intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy for superficial bladder cancer.

TL;DR: The first reported case of fatal opportunistic Trichosporon asahii pneumonia in the setting of severe COVID-19 pneumonia was reported in this paper , where the patient received intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotics, tocilizumab, and corticosteroids with subsequent development of cavitary infiltrates.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe a 65-year-old male who was treated with metronidazole for his hepatic abscess, who presented with syncope and questionable seizure and was found to have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain findings consistent with METRONIDAZole toxicity.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe a case of severe hyponatraemia post second Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against COVID-19, which can lead to serious neurological complications including coma, seizure and death.

TL;DR: In this paper , a case of pneumococcal meningitis in a patient with severe COVID-19 who was receiving dexamethasone and tocilizumab was reported.

TL;DR: In this article , two individuals with common variable immunodeficiency and chronic debilitating norovirus gastroenteritis were treated with enterally administered immunoglobulin via a duodenal feeding tube as other treatment modalities have been unsuccessful.

TL;DR: In this article , a 62-year-old male with a history of ulcerative colitis under immunosuppressive treatment and previous exposure to antibiotics for various bacterial infections was admitted to the emergency department with a mycotic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and left common iliac secondary to T. asahii infection.

TL;DR: A. europaeus is a gram-positive anaerobic filamentous bacillus that has only been documented in one prior report to cause necrotizing fasciitis as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the case of a 71-year-old renal transplant recipient who developed acute M. haemophilum osteomyelitis of the left foot, likely contracted from Epsom salt soaks with contaminated tap water.

TL;DR: In this paper , a unique case of IRIS associated cerebellitis in an AIDS patient with cryptococcal immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) has been reported.

TL;DR: A 61-year-old Japanese man with advanced colorectal adenocarcinoma presented with fever and abdominal pain, which was diagnosed as perforated peritonitis with C. hongkongensis bacteremia in Japan as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , a man in the seventh decade of life with a recent diagnosis of infection by HIV, who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, requiring continuous renal replacement therapy and plasma replacement therapy, without response, ADAMTS13 with preserved activity, ruling out other etiologies (infectious, metabolic, and genetic) with successful response to eculizumab.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors presented the case of a 78-year-old man with a history of seronegative polyarthritis that was refractory to treatment with several biological agents for a duration of 5 years prior to presentation to the emergency department with stroke.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors reported that a patient with underlying rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes developed wrist septic arthritis and osteomyelitis due to Roseomonas after steroid joint injection.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a case of chorioamnionitis caused by ampicillin-resistant H. influenzae in a 32-year-old Japanese woman at 16 weeks of gestation.

TL;DR: In this article , a case where Hyphopichia burtonii, a yeast speciated from peritoneal fluid in a cirrhotic patient with secondary peritonitis, was presented.

TL;DR: A case series of four cases aged 28 years, 53 years, 33 years and 22 years was reported in this article , where three of the four cases were discharged after complete recovery while one case went leave against medical advice.

TL;DR: In this article , a 63-year-old woman developed sudden cardiac arrest and pulmonary insufficiency in the course of being treated for acute monocytic leukemia (acute myelogenous leukemia, AML M5a).

TL;DR: A case of Aspergillus fumigatus infection on a native mitral valve in a patient with autoimmune hepatitis in remission while on low dose corticosteroids was described in this article .

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe a case of rhabdomyolysis, thought to have been caused by pemafibrate (which was prescribed for hyperlipidemia) or bacterial infection, in a patient who had experienced severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) induced RBC.

TL;DR: In this paper , the first time this treatment resistance was proven by videomicroscopic evaluation, and an escalation therapy was described, which led to an effective treatment, which is a controversial issue since treatment failures were believed to be due to false application oft he treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe a case of A. defectiva meningitis in a patient with VP shunt revision, where the patient was discharged on chronic suppressive therapy with oral amoxicillin.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors report the clinical success of five patients who received definitive-treatment with an omadacycline-containing combination regimen for M. abscessus infection, which is problematic due to inherent multidrug resistance and lack of response to antibacterials commonly used as therapy for other mycobacterial infections.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors described immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in a case of Pneumocystis jirovecii infection of the spleen.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset despite a 14-day course of tecovirimat therapy.

TL;DR: A 65-year-old immunocompetent man was first treated with antibiotics after being diagnosed with a lung infection, then after the lack of response to treatment, he was diagnosed with mucormycosis in further investigations as mentioned in this paper .