The first report of endocarditis with visualized valve vegetations.

was recently defined as a species and has previously often been mistaken for due to the difficulties of conventional laboratory methods to distinguish the two species. The clinical presentation of infections caused by is largely unknown, and its virulence has since the definition of the species been debated. Here we present, to our knowledge, the first case of infective endocarditis due to with valve vegetations visualized on echocardiography.

Make Modern Microbiology Matter More in the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for the Management of Infective Endocarditis.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2023 guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis (IE) stress that a multidisciplinary approach is needed to manage patients with IE. In our view, the guidelines do not include the relevant perspectives from modern microbiology. The diagnostic criteria for IE were changed in the ESC 2023 guidelines, and many IE-causing pathogens are either not clearly defined.

Bacteraemia caused by non-faecalis and non-faecium Enterococcus species-a retrospective study of incidence, focus of infection, and prognosis.

Background/aim: Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium cause human infections including bacteraemia and infective endocarditis (IE). Only few studies describing non-faecalis and non-faecium Enterococcus (NFE) infections have been conducted. We aimed to describe the incidence, prognosis, and focus of infection of bacteraemia with NFE.

Short blood culture time-to-positivity in Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia is associated with Lemierre's syndrome.

The usefulness of blood culture time-to-positivity (TTP) in the diagnosis of endovascular infections has previously been shown. Here, we investigated TTP in 41 patients with F. necrophorum bacteraemia and found an association between short TTP and Lemierre's syndrome (p = 0.

Enterococcus faecalis in blood cultures-a prospective study on the role of persistent bacteremia.

Enterococcus faecalis can cause infective endocarditis and other complicated infections. We prospectively investigate the incidence of persistent bacteremia with E. faecalis.

Infective Endocarditis Due to Species: Clinical Features and Antibiotic Resistance.

Background: species are often dismissed as contaminants in blood cultures, but they can also cause infective endocarditis (IE), which is a severe condition. Antibiotic resistance of corynebacteria is increasing making treatment challenging. Reports on IE caused by species are scarce and more knowledge is needed.

Short time to blood culture positivity in Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis.

Time to blood culture positivity (TTP) is an indirect measure of bacterial concentration in blood. A short TTP has been linked to the presence of infective endocarditis (IE) and to poor prognosis in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. We analyze factors influencing TTP in bacteremia with Enterococcus faecalis.

Febrile urinary tract infection in an immunocompetent male caused by - evidence of transmission in a home hot tub.

are opportunistic pathogens. Here we describe a case of urinary tract infection in a previously healthy man. The bacterium was likely introduced during sexual intercourse in a home hot tub contaminated with the bacterium.