Spontaneous Pyomyositis Due to Staphylococcus epidermidis

Primary multifocal pyomyositis due to Staphylococcus aureus.

A 20-year-old man was referred to our institution with complaints of a 2-week prodrome of myalgia, rigors, drenching sweats and general malaise. There was no history of recent trauma, viral illness, extreme exercise or intravenous drug use. He had no other comorbidities. His only contact with doctors was a year prior to this presentation, when he had a gunshot to his back, with the bullet fragm...

[Chronic fever associated with splenic abscess due to Staphylococcus epidermidis].

Occult abscesses are frequent causes of chronic fever. Splenic abscesses are rare entities that are usually associated with underlying conditions such as abdominal surgery, endocarditis or immunodepression. We report on the case of a patient with prolonged fever caused by a splenic abscess, whose main differential diagnosis was visceral leishmaniasis. However, this condition was probably relate...

Adherence of Staphylococcus epidermidis to intraocular lenses.

We have demonstrated, with an in vitro model, that Staphylococcus epidermidis is able to colonise intraocular lenses. Adherent organisms were quantitated by light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and viable counting. Bacterial adherence was associated with production of a polysaccharide glycocalyx. Organisms which were attached to the lenses were resistant to apparently bactericidal co...

Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis to 65 antibiotics.

The susceptibilities of 36 recent isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 35 recent isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis were determined against each of 65 antimicrobial agents and against two of them in combination. Rifampin was the most active of all the agents tested against both S. aureus and S. epidermidis. Among the penicillins, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, and nafcillin were most active, ...

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