[Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Due to Corynebacterium ulcerans - Case Reports].

 We report on three patients suffering from skin and soft tissue infections of the legs due to toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strains. In all three patients, there was a predisposition due to chronic diseases. Three patients had domestic animals (cat, dog) in their households.

[Fatal sepsis due to capnocytophaga canimorsus after dog bite].

A 56-year-old man was bitten by a dog. 8 days later he was admitted to a hospital because of severe deterioration of his clinical situation. He developed the clinical picture of fulminant sepsis.

Mycobacterium microti--pulmonary tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient.

Human tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, which includes M. tuberculosis, M. bovis, M.

[Endocarditis due to Cardiobacterium hominis after Ross operation. Case report and review of the literature].

Case Report: A case of endocarditis due to Cardiobacterium (C.) hominis in a 41-year-old female patient 1 year after aortic valve replacement with a pulmonary autograft (Ross operation) is described. Diagnosis was established by blood culture and echocardiographic detection of a vegetation on the noncoronary cusp of the autograft.

[Endocarditis due to Granulicatella adiacens].

Case Report: A prosthetic aortic valve was implanted in a 41-year-old patient with connatal aortic stenosis. 14 months later a bacterial endocarditis was diagnosed and treated with ceftriaxone. 6 weeks later he had a relapse.