Publications by authors named "Bingqian Zhuo"
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- - Bartonella is hard to diagnose because it's rare and often not detected in cultures, which can lead to severe complications like infective endocarditis if treatment is delayed.
- - A case study of a 60-year-old woman showed that after 5 months of recurrent fever and ineffective local treatment, advanced testing confirmed she had a Bartonella vinsonii infection linked to endocarditis.
- - Successful treatment involved surgery and a combination of doxycycline and ceftriaxone, highlighting the importance of early detection and the use of advanced diagnostic methods like metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing (m-NGS) for better identification of unknown pathogens.
Pseudonectria keratitis-emerging pathogenic fungi in the eye.
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob
July 2024
Background: Infectious keratitis, a significant contributor to blindness, with fungal keratitis accounting for nearly half of cases, poses a formidable diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to its delayed clinical presentation, prolonged culture times, and the limited availability of effective antifungal medications. Furthermore, infections caused by rare fungal strains warrant equal attention in the management of this condition.
Case Presentation: A case of fungal keratitis was presented, where corneal scraping material culture yielded pink colonies.
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- * A chest CT scan revealed pulmonary inflammation, leading to further testing that identified the rare pathogen Nocardia in the patient's alveolar lavage fluid.
- * After being treated with linezolid, an antibiotic, the patient showed improvement and was discharged from the hospital.
Background: Talaromyces marneffei (T. marneffei) is a thermal dimorphic fungus, which can cause lung or blood stream infection in patients, often life-threatening. However, endocarditis caused by T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComplicated case with fever or headache of unknown origin is currently one of the main challenges in clinical diagnosis. A retrospective analysis was conducted on a 27-year-old female patient hospitalized with headache and fever, and the pathogen species were ultimately determined by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The culture results of CSF showed no bacterial or fungal growth.
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