Disseminated infection due to penicillin resistant gonococci--is it still rare?

Validity of reports of penicillin-resistant gonococci.

Meningitis due to mixed infection with penicillin-resistant and penicillin-susceptible strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major cause of bacterial meningitis. We report a case of meningitis due to a mixed infection with two distinct strains of S. pneumoniae: one penicillin-resistant strain of serotype 9V and one penicillin-susceptible strain of serotype 7. The two strains exhibited different pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles.

DISSEMINATED INFECTION DUE TO FUSARIUM SP. IN A PATIENT WI TH CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE

The present report discusses disseminated fusariosis in a 15 year old boy with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). He was admitted to the Hazrat Rasool Acram Hospital in November 1995, with a chronic wound in the right ankle and buttock area. Antibacterial therapy was started, but there was no response. The patient was still febrile. Chest x-ray revealed parahilar lesions in both lungs. Ti...

Comamonas testosteroni: Is It Still a Rare Human Pathogen?

Comamonas testosteroni (formally Pseudomonas testosteroni) is common environmental bacterium that is not part of the human microbiome. Since its identification as a human pathogen in 1987, numerous reports have drizzled in, implicating this organism for various infections. Although these organisms are of low virulence, some of their obscurity perhaps is due to the incapability of clinical labor...

Suppurative pericarditis due to a penicillin- and streptomycin-resistant staphylococcus.

In spite of modern antibiotic therapy, suppurative pericarditis remains a serious condition and the mortality rate is still believed to be in the region of 50% (d'Abreu, 1953). Aird (1949) states that the mortality by aspiration alone is 100%, by operation alone 50%, but that the mortality from a combination of aspiration and penicillin replacement should be low providing the organism is sensit...