Rothia mucilaginosa prosthetic device infections: a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Rothia mucilaginosa is increasingly recognized as an emerging opportunistic pathogen associated with prosthetic device infections. Infective endocarditis is one of the most common clinical presentations. We report a case of R.

Post-traumatic fungal keratitis caused by Carpoligna sp.

Purpose: To report the first case of fungal keratitis caused by presumed Carpoligna species.

Methods: A 37-year-old gardener sustained a full-thickness, stellate corneal laceration while cutting wood outdoors with a circular saw. Two months after surgical repair, he developed a severe infectious keratitis with descemetocoele at the apex of the original stellate laceration.