Focal pachymeningitis in a returning traveler: Don't forget melioidosis.

Background: Melioidosis is an endemic disease in South-East Asia and Northern Australia caused by a Gram-negative bacillus, . Manifestations are wide and neurological involvement have rarely been described.

Methods: In this paper, we report a patient returning from Asia with an unusual infection including CNS involvement consistent with a melioidosis.

Pleuropneumonia resulting from varicella and COVID-19 co-infection in a 10-month-old infant.

COVID-19 is a new disease leading to respiratory complications in adults. Children appear to have more modest symptoms than adults. Varicella is often described as a benign disease in the pediatric population.

Staphylococcus capitis isolated from bloodstream infections: a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units.

To increase the knowledge about S. capitis in the neonatal setting, we conducted a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) covering 56.6% of French NICU beds.

Long-Term Rasamsonia argillacea Complex Species Colonization Revealed by PCR Amplification of Repetitive DNA Sequences in Cystic Fibrosis Patients.

The aim of this work was to document molecular epidemiology of Rasamsonia argillacea species complex isolates from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. In this work, 116 isolates belonging to this species complex and collected from 26 CF patients and one patient with chronic granulomatous disease were characterized using PCR amplification assays of repetitive DNA sequences and electrophoretic separation of amplicons (rep-PCR). Data revealed a clustering consistent with molecular species identification.

Semi-automated repetitive sequence-based PCR amplification for species of the Scedosporium apiospermum complex.

Purpose: The Scedosporium apiospermum species complex usually ranks second among the filamentous fungi colonizing the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), but little is known about the molecular epidemiology of the airway colonization.

Methods: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of repetitive sequences (rep-PCR) was applied to the retrospective analysis of a panel of isolates already studied by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and comprising 63 isolates recovered from sputa from 9 CF patients. Results were compared to those obtained previously by RAPD, and herein by beta-tubulin (TUB) gene sequencing and Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST).

[Cervical spondylodiscitis inoculation revealed by abdominal infection].

We report a patient who presented successively peritonis concomitant bacteriema with Staphylococcus aureus then meningitis and finally a bone and joint infection. All the infections are associated with the same germ. This patient of 40 years suffers of diabet mellitus and has history of neck pain and cervical spondylosis.