as Cause of Septic Pericarditis.

() is a coagulase-negative gram-positive bacterium, considered part of skin flora, which can simultaneously cause human diseases. has been reported in the literature as one of the causative agents for infective endocarditis.1 Although one of the coagulasenegative staphylococci, shares many virulent characteristics with (), including biofilm formation.

Histoplasmosis in pregnancy: case series and report of transplacental transmission.

Although a healthy pregnancy seems to confer an increased susceptibility to systemic fungal infections, to our knowledge, no known association exists in the case of Histoplasma capsulatum. In addition, to our knowledge, transplacental transmission of H capsulatum has not been previously described. We describe a series of patients treated at our institutions between 1997 and 2000 with evidence of transplacental transmission of H capsulatum.