Achromobacter xylosoxidans Relapsing Peritonitis and Streptococcus suis Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Report of Two Cases by Rafał Donderski, Magdalena Grajewska, Agnieszka Mikucka, Beata Sulikowska, Eugenia Gospodarek-Komkowska, Jacek Manitius

“…It is usually caused by Gram positive Staphylococcus epidermidis. Achromobacter xylosoxidans (A. xylosoxidans) and Streptococcus suis (S. suis) are rare pathogens, but there is emerging evidence that they may be also responsible for PD related peritonitis. …”
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A Descriptive Study of Nosocomial Infections in an Adult Intensive Care Unit in Fiji: 2011-12 by Keshni Naidu, Ilisapeci Nabose, Sharan Ram, Kerri Viney, Stephen M. Graham, Karen Bissell

“…The commonest sites of infection were respiratory and bloodstream. Gram negative bacteria were the commonest pathogens isolated, especially Klebsiella pneumoniae (extended-spectrum β-Lactamase-producing), Acinetobacter, and Pseudomonas species. …”
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Clinical Outcome with Oral Linezolid and Rifampin Following Recurrent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Despite Prolonged Vancomycin Treatment by Jon-David Schwalm, Philippe El-Helou, Christine H Lee

“…Drug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus, are emerging as the predominant organisms involved in both nosocomial and community-acquired infections. …”
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Antioxidant Functions of Nitric Oxide Synthase in a Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus by Manisha Vaish, Vineet K. Singh

“…Nitric oxide and its derivative peroxynitrites are generated by host defense system to control bacterial infection. However certain Gram positive bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus possess a gene encoding nitric oxide synthase (SaNOS) in their chromosome. …”
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A bacterial type III effector hijacks plant ubiquitin proteases to evade degradation. by Wenjia Yu, Meng Li, Wenjun Wang, Haiyan Zhuang, Jiamin Luo, Yuying Sang, Cecile Segonzac, Alberto P Macho

“…Gram-negative bacterial pathogens inject effector proteins inside plant cells using a type III secretion system. …”
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World antimicrobial resistance (AMR) awareness week by Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi

“…Unfortunately, the number of cases infected with ceftazidime/avibactam-resistant Gram-negative bacteria has increased due to NDM-MBL production (Nearly 87% of K. pneumoniae clinical isolates in Isfahan). …”
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A Rare Manifestation of Tuberculosis Presenting in the United States by Osman Bhatty, David Waters, Nicholas Wilka, Shradha Samuel, John Horne, Renuga Vivekanandan

“…Initial biopsy revealed granulomas, but Ziehl-Neelsen and Gram stain were negative for TB so antibiotics were prescribed for abscess until culture came positive for tuberculosis. …”
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Incidence of Eimeria spp. in Fat-Tailed Sheep Breed in Malang, Indonesia by Nurdianti Nurdianti, Muchammad Yunus, Mufasirin Mufasirin

“…The positive sample was followed by the McMaster test to calculate oocysts per gram (OPG). The results showed that 20 (32%) samples were positively infected by Eimeria spp. with the degree of infection in the severe category.…”
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Interplay between porin deficiency, fitness, and virulence in carbapenem-non-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae. by Hedi Mammeri, Youssouf Sereme, Eya Toumi, Hélène Faury, David Skurnik

“…The increasing resistance of Gram-negative bacteria to last resort antibiotics, such as carbapenems, is particularly of concern as it is a significant cause of global health threat. …”
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Diagnostic Challenges in the Detection of Actinomycotic Osteomyelitis of the Mandible: A Case Report by Elitsa G. Deliverska, Dimitar T. Yovchev, Marusia Zh. Genadieva, Sadeta J. Parusheva

“…Actinomycosis is a rare chronic granulomatous infection and can be caused by Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria which are normal commensals of the oral cavity and pharynx. …”
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Bartonella henselae Hepatic Abscesses and Associated Osteomyelitis in a Pediatric Patient by Molly Antonson, Lauren Klingemann, Kari Neemann

“…Bartonella henselae is a Gram-negative bacillus transmitted to humans via cat saliva or scratch. …”
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Linezolid and serotonin syndrome by Haytham A. Wali

“…Linezolid, a synthetic oxazolidinone antibiotic, is used to treat gram-positive bacterial infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . …”
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Tracking anharmonic oscillations in the structure of β-1,3-diacetylpyrene by A. Zwolenik, A. Makal

“…Experimental data of sufficient quality combined with Hirshfeld atom refinement of the crystal structures enabled a quantitative analysis of elusive anharmonic effects within the Gram–Charlier formalism. This example highlights that quantum crystallography tools can and should be applied in structural analysis even for data collected at high temperatures as well as of standard (∼0.8 Å) resolution.…”
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Listeria monocytogenes Meningoencephalitis and Cerebral Abscess in a Heart Transplant Recipient by Paul C. Adjei

“…Lumbar puncture revealed elevated opening pressure, CSF neutrophilic pleocytosis, and elevated CSF protein and lactate but negative gram stain and cultures. First-line agent for Listeria meningoencephalitis is ampicillin. …”
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Task-dependent Optimal Weight Combinations for Static Embeddings by Nathaniel Robinson, Nathaniel Carlson, David Mortensen, Elizabeth Vargas, Thomas Fackrell, Nancy Fulda

“… A variety of NLP applications use word2vec skip-gram, GloVe, and fastText word embeddings. These models learn two sets of embedding vectors, but most practitioners use only one of them, or alternately an unweighted sum of both. …”
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Risk Factors for and Outcomes Associated with Clinical Isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species Resistant to Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporins among Patients Admitted to... by Marianna Ofner-Agostini, Andrew Simor, Michael Mulvey, Alison McGeer, Zahir Hirji, Melissa McCracken, Denise Gravel, David Boyd, Elizabeth Bryce

“…BACKGROUND: Clinical features associated with Gram-negative bacterial isolates with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)- and AmpC-mediated resistance identified in Canadian hospitals is largely unknown. …”
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Detection of Bacterial Endospores in Soil by Terbium Fluorescence by Andrea Brandes Ammann, Linda Kölle, Helmut Brandl

“…The highest spore content (up to 109 spores per gram of dry soil) was found in grassland soils. Spore content is related to soil type, to soil depth, and to soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. …”
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Meningitis due to Streptococcus suis in Two Patients with Occupational Exposure from Northeastern Brazil by Francisco Breno Ponte de Matos, Luís Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias, Camila Negreiro Dias, Lorena Pinho Mendes, Pedro Pinheiro de Negreiros Bessa

“…S. suis is an encapsulated Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic bacterium. This infection usually manifests in humans as meningitis, endocarditis, septicemia, and/or arthritis. …”
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Salmonella enterica Serotype Arizonae Meningitis in a Neonate by Wubishet Lakew, Abayneh Girma, Elizabeth Triche

“…Therefore, it should be included in the differential diagnosis of Gram-negative bacillary meningitis in immunocompromised children, neonates, and those with contacts with reptiles.…”
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Streptococcus pseudoporcinus: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Shanza Khan, Ting Ting Wong, Nishant Prasad, Benjamin Lee, Carl Urban, Sorana Segal-Maurer, Glenn Turett

“…Streptococcus pseudoporcinus is a beta-hemolytic Gram-positive, catalase-negative, nonmotile coccus arranged in short chains, usually found in the female genitourinary tract and differentiated from Streptococcus porcinus in 2006. …”
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