: a rare case of pneumonia associated with an Alzheimer patient in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Introduction: is rarely associated with human diseases. Infection is usuallcaused by ingestion of contaminated food, and infant botulism is the most common clinical presentation.

Case Report: Here we report a case of pneumonia by a non-toxigenic strain of in an Alzheimer 70-year-old male with sepsis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Epidemic of postsurgical infections caused by Mycobacterium massiliense.

An epidemic of infections after video-assisted surgery (1,051 possible cases) caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) and involving 63 hospitals in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, occurred between August 2006 and July 2007. One hundred ninety-seven cases were confirmed by positive acid-fast staining and/or culture techniques. Thirty-eight hospitals had cases confirmed by mycobacterial culture, with a total of 148 available isolates recovered from 146 patients.