A man in his seventies with pleural effusion, knee pain and dysarthria following open heart surgery.

Background: Patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy are vulnerable to infections. The wide range of possible causative pathogens, often with unusual manifestations and/or confounding comorbidity, are challenging for diagnosis and treatment.

Case Presentation: An active man in his seventies developed recurrent pleural effusions, peripheral oedemas and fatigue, diagnosed as post-cardiotomy syndrome, within four months of open heart surgery and ablation due to aortic stenosis and atrial fibrillation.

Identification of Species in a Patient with Endophthalmitis following Penetrating Injury with Retained Intraocular Metallic Foreign Body.

To the best of our knowledge, we report the first case of species in a patient with endophthalmitis. A 47-year-old man presented to the ophthalmology department with decreased vision, redness, and minimal pain in his right eye after a foreign body struck his eye following working using a hammer and chisel. Broad-spectrum polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing targeting 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid-(rRNA-) encoding gene on an undiluted vitreous sample revealed 100% identity with GenBank sequences of species including , , and .

Maternal Colonization with Group B Streptococcus Is Associated with an Increased Rate of Infants Transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus, GBS) is the most common cause of early neonatal infection, but restricting the diagnosis to culture-positive infants may underestimate the burden of GBS disease. Our objective was to determine whether maternal GBS colonization was associated with an increased risk of transfer of term infants to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and, if so, to estimate the incidence of probable early-onset GBS disease.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 1,694 term infants whose mothers had vaginal-rectal swabs collected at delivery.

Comparison of PCR and serotyping of Group B Streptococcus in pregnant women: the Oslo GBS-study.

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) is a leading cause of invasive neonatal infection. Serotyping of GBS is important in following epidemiological trends and vaccine development. Capsular serotyping of GBS by latex agglutination has been the predominant typing method, but more recently capsular genotyping has been introduced as an alternative method.