Figure 1. Gram stain of the isolate from a blood culture (original magnification, 1000x) showing gram-negative rods with both filamentous (arrow) and dumbbell-shaped (arrowheads) morphologies characteristic of Cardiobacterium hominis. Diagnosis: Cardiobacterium hominis prosthetic valve endo-carditis. C. hominis is one of the fastidious gram-negative bacteria that belong to the HACEK group of or...

Mycoplasma hominis has been recognized as an extragenital pathogen in immunocompromised hosts, including kidney and heart transplant recipients; patients with systemic autoimmune diseases, lymphomas, or leukemia; and patients who have undergone cardiac surgery or who have experienced trauma [1, 2]. Liver transplantation has rarely been reported to increase host susceptibility to intraabdominal ...

the parasites of genus sarcocystis are among the most commonly found parasites in domestic ruminants and some species of sarcocystis can generate important economic loss when causing clinical and subclinical diseases. sarcocystis hominis, one of the three species of sarcocystis that cause muscular cysts in cattle, can infect the human intestinal tract. there is high infection rate of sarcocyst ...