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Purpose To investigate the clinical characteristics and pathological features of patients with mycobacterial tenosynovitis and arthritis. Methods All patients with tenosynovitis and arthritis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) who were treated at a medical center in Taiwan from 2001 to 2010 were analyzed. Results Thirty-two patients with mycobacterial...
Liver abscess caused by Actinomyces odontolyticus is rarely reported. We report an immunocompetent patient who developed A. odontolyticus liver abscess, and was successfully treated with antibiotics for 6 weeks and abscess drainage. The isolate could not be identified accurately by one commercial biochemical method and was documented to species level by partial sequencing analysis of 16S rRNA genes.
The Legionella species is an important cause of communityand hospital-acquired pneumonia. Bacteremic pneumonia caused by L. pneumophila is rarely reported. We describe the first reported case of hospital-acquired pneumonia and bacteremia caused by L. pneumophila from Taiwan in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who received steroid treatment. The patient was successfully treated...
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