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1. Toddler with Fever and Grunting

Author

Christina A. Rostad and Frank E. Berkowitz

Subjects
Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Haemophilus Infections, Fever, Nasal congestion, Tachypnea, Pericardial Effusion, Humans, Medicine, Medical prescription, Toddler, Respiratory Sounds, African american, Past medical history, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, General Medicine, respiratory system, Haemophilus influenzae, Decreased appetite, Infectious Diseases, Echocardiography, Child, Preschool, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, medicine.symptom, business, Chest radiograph
Abstract

A 2-year-old African American male presented with a 3-day history of low-grade fever, nasal congestion, and decreased appetite. One day prior to admission, he developed tachypnea and grunting with a temperature of 102°F. He presented to an outside hospital, where a chest radiograph was obtained. He was diagnosed with acute suppurative otitis media and was discharged home with a prescription for amoxicillin. The next day, he was called back to the hospital due to abnormal findings identified on the chest radiograph by the radiologist. Past Medical History

Published
2015
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2. Gram-Positive Rods on a Cerebrospinal Fluid Gram Stain

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David Wrubel, Amelia B. Thompson, and Frank E. Berkowitz

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, business.industry, 030106 microbiology, Device placement, macromolecular substances, Id Case, medicine.disease, Listeria monocytogenes, law.invention, Shunt (medical), Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Infectious Diseases, Gram staining, Cerebrospinal fluid, Gram-positive rod, Oncology, law, Ventriculitis, Medicine, Vp shunt, CNS infection, business, Gram-Positive Rod, Pediatric population
Abstract

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) access device placement in the pediatric population presents challenges due to the development of infections following placement, access or revision, and/or shunt malfunctions. Here we report an unusual pediatric case of L. monocytogenes ventriculitis/VP shunt (VPS) infection and associated pseudocyst with an emphasis on the importance of VPS removal in clearing the infection due to biofilm formation.

Published
2017
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3. Pediatric Dental Clinic-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus Infections

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Craig Shapiro, Joseph A. Hilinski, Sarah S Milla, Andi L. Shane, Gianna Peralta, Paula Harmon, Joseph K Williams, Sivi Baktha, Shelly Abramowicz, Verlia Gower, Lisa M Cranmer, Melissa Tobin-D'Angelo, Matthew K Whitley, Evan J. Anderson, Cherie Drenzek, Melissa Statham, Steve Shore, Jumi Yi, Lindsay A. Hatzenbuehler, and Frank E. Berkowitz

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Outbreak, 030206 dentistry, 03 medical and health sciences, Mycobacterium abscessus Infections, 0302 clinical medicine, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Dental clinic, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Internal medicine, medicine, business
Published
2016
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4. Exposure to Tuberculosis among Newborns in a Nursery: Decision Analysis for Initiation of Prophylaxis

Author

Henry M. Blumberg, Johan L. Severens, and Frank E. Berkowitz

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Tuberculosis, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, Epidemiology, 030106 microbiology, Antitubercular Agents, Models, Biological, Decision Support Techniques, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Isoniazid, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Antibiotic prophylaxis, Survival analysis, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, biology, business.industry, Public health, Decision Trees, Infant, Newborn, Antibiotic Prophylaxis, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Survival Analysis, Infectious Diseases, Sputum, medicine.symptom, business, Decision analysis, medicine.drug
Abstract

Objective.Newborns in a hospital nursery were exposed to a mother whose sputum was direct-smear negative for acid-fast bacilli but culture positive forMycobacterium tuberculosis. Given the low risk for exposure, the high susceptibility of infants toM. tuberculosisinfection, and the possibility of hepatotoxicity due to isoniazid therapy, a decision analysis model was used to determine whether administration of isoniazid prophylaxis against tuberculosis is preferable to no administration of prophylaxis.Design.A decision analysis tree was constructed with software, using probabilities from the literature and costs from local health facilities. The expected values for each strategy were obtained, and sensitivity analyses were performed.Results.For the strategy in which prophylaxis was administered under direct observation (DO), the probability for survival was 0.999980. For the strategy in which no prophylaxis was administered, the probability of survival was 0.999950, which corresponds to 3 more deaths per 100,000 patients than with the DO prophylaxis strategy. The incremental cost-effectiveness of the DO prophylaxis strategy was $21,710,000 per death prevented. Sensitivity analysis for survival showed that the DO prophylaxis strategy was preferable to the strategy in which no prophylaxis is given if the probability of infection was >0.0002, the probability of tuberculous disease in an infected infant who did not receive prophylaxis was greater than 0.12, the probability of dying from tuberculosis was greater than 0.025, the probability of hepatotoxicity was less than 0.004, and the probability of dying from hepatotoxicity was less than 0.04. For the strategy in which prophylaxis was administered under non-DO conditions (ie, by parents), the incremental cost-effectiveness was $929,500 per death prevented, which is approximately 5% of the incremental cost-effectiveness of the DO prophylaxis strategy.Conclusion.This model provides a structure for determining the preferable prophylaxis strategies for different risks of exposure to tuberculosis in a nursery. Administration of prophylaxis is preferable to no administration of prophylaxis, unless the probability of infection is extremely low.

Published
2006
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5. Quadriplegia ComplicatingEscherichia coliMeningitis in a Newborn Infant: Case Report and Review of 22 Cases of Spinal Cord Dysfunction in Patients with Acute Bacterial Meningitis

Author

Frank E. Berkowitz and Kathryn S. Moffett

Subjects
Adult, Vasculitis, Microbiology (medical), Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Cord, Adolescent, Neurological disorder, Quadriplegia, Spinal Cord Diseases, Meningitis, Bacterial, Central nervous system disease, Ischemia, Humans, Medicine, Child, Tetraplegia, Escherichia coli Infections, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Infant, medicine.disease, Spinal cord, Infectious Diseases, medicine.anatomical_structure, Child, Preschool, Female, business, Complication, Meningitis
Abstract

We report a case of Escherichia coli meningitis complicated by spinal cord dysfunction in a neonate. This very rare complication of bacterial meningitis was probably caused by ischemia of the cord resulting from vasculitis. We review the 22 other reports of patients with this complication and discuss its pathogenesis.

Published
1997
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6. Contributors

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Elisabeth E. Adderson, Aarti Agarwal, Grace M. Aldrovandi, Upton D. Allen, Manuel R. Amieva, Krow Ampofo, Alicia D. Anderson, Margot Anderson, Paul M. Arguin, John C. Arnold, Ann M. Arvin, Shai Ashkenazi, Carol J. Baker, William J. Barson, Daniel G. Bausch, Kirsten Bechtel, Daniel K. Benjamin, Frank E. Berkowitz, Margaret J. Blythe, Joseph A. Bocchini, Michael Boeckh, Anna Bowen, William R. Bowie, Thomas G. Boyce, John S. Bradley, Michael T. Brady, Denise F. Bratcher, Paula K. Braverman, Caroline Breese Hall, Joseph S. Bresee, Itzhak Brook, Kristina Bryant, E. Stephen Buescher, Jane L. Burns, Gale R. Burstein, Carrie L. Byington, Kathy K. Byrd, Michael Cappello, Bryan D. Carter, Emily J. Cartwright, Mary T. Caserta, Chiara Cerini, Ellen Gould Chadwick, Beth Cheesebrough, P. Joan Chesney, John C. Christenson, Thomas G. Cleary, Susan E. Coffin, Laura M. Conklin, Laurie S. Conklin, Beverly L. Connelly, Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, James H. Conway, Margaret M. Cortese, C. Michael Cotten, Elaine Cox, Maryanne E. Crockett, James E. Crowe, Nigel Curtis, Dennis J. Cunningham, Linda Marie Dairiki Shortliffe, Toni Darville, Gregory A. Dasch, Irini Daskalaki, Robert S. Daum, Fatimah S. Dawood, Gail J. Demmler, Dickson D. Despommier, Karen A. Diefenbach, Christopher C. Dvorak, Kathryn M. Edwards, Morven S. Edwards, Lawrence F. Eichenfield, Dirk M. Elston, Janet A. Englund, Veronique Erard, Marina E. Eremeeva, Anat R. Feingold, Adam Finn, Anthony E. Fiore, Marc Fischer, Sarah J. Fitch, Patricia M. Flynn, LeAnne M. Fox, Michael M. Frank, Douglas R. Fredrick, Sheila Fallon Friedlander, Hayley A. Gans, Carla G. Garcia, Maria C. Garzon, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Michael D. Geschwind, Laura B. Gieraltowski, Francis Gigliotti, Peter H. Gilligan, Carol Glaser, Benjamin D. Gold, Brahm Goldstein, Jane M. Gould, Michael Green, David Greenberg, Patricia M. Griffin, Alexei A. Grom, Kathleen Gutierrez, Judith A. Guzman-Cottrill, Aron J. Hall, Marvin B. Harper, Christopher J. Harrison, David B. Haslam, Sarah J. Hawkes, Edward B. Hayes, Rohan Hazra, Sara Jane Heilig, J. Owen Hendley, Marion C.W. Henry, Joseph A. Hilinski, Scott D. Holmberg, Deborah Holtzman, Peter J. Hotez, Katherine K. Hsu, Dale J. Hu, Loris Y. Hwang, David Y. Hyun, Mary Anne Jackson, Richard F. Jacobs, Jeffrey L. Jones, Saleem Kamili, M. Gary Karlowicz, Ben Z. Katz, Gilbert J. Kersh, Laura M. Kester, Jay S. Keystone, David W. Kimberlin, Martin B. Kleiman, Mark W. Kline, Andrew Y. Koh, Andreas Konstantopoulos, Katalin I. Koranyi, E. Kent Korgenski, Andrew T. Kroger, Paul Krogstad, Christine T. Lauren, Hillary S. Lawrence, Eugene Leibovitz, Stéphanie Levasseur, David B. Lewis, Jay M. Lieberman, Jen-Jane Liu, Robyn A. Livingston, Eloisa Llata, Anagha R. Loharikar, Sarah S. Long, Ben A. Lopman, Bennett Lorber, Donald E. Low, Yalda C. Lucero, Jorge Luján-Zilbermann, Katherine Luzuriaga, Noni E. MacDonald, Adam MacNeil, Yvonne A. Maldonado, Chitra S. Mani, Mario J. Marcon, Gary S. Marshall, Stacey W. Martin, Catalina Matiz, Alison C. Mawle, Tony Mazzulli, George H. McCracken, Matthew B. McDonald, Robert S. McGregor, Kenneth McIntosh, Meredith McMorrow, Candice McNeil, Jennifer H. McQuiston, Debrah Meislich, H. Cody Meissner, Asunción Mejías, Manoj P. Menon, Jussi Mertsola, Marian G. Michaels, Melissa B. Miller, Eric D. Mintz, John F. Modlin, Parvathi Mohan, Susan P. Montgomery, Jose G. Montoya, Zack S. Moore, Maite de la Morena, Pedro L. Moro, Anna-Barbara Moscicki, R. Lawrence Moss, Trudy V. Murphy, Dennis L. Murray, Angela L. Myers, Simon Nadel, James P. Nataro, Michael N. Neely, William L. Nicholson, Victor Nizet, Amy Jo Nopper, Anna Norrby-Teglund, Theresa J. Ochoa, Miguel O’Ryan, Walter A. Orenstein, Christopher D. Paddock, Diane E. Pappas, Robert F. Pass, Thomas F. Patterson, Stephen I. Pelton, Larry K. Pickering, Caroline Diane Sarah Piggott, Philip A. Pizzo, Andrew J. Pollard, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Susan M. Poutanen, Dwight A. Powell, Alice S. Prince, Charles G. Prober, Octavio Ramilo, Shawn J. Rangel, Sarah A. Rawstron, Jennifer S. Read, Michael D. Reed, Joanna J. Regan, Megan E. Reller, Melissa A. Reyes, Peter A. Rice, Samuel E. Rice-Townsend, Frank O. Richards, Gail L. Rodgers, Pierre E. Rollin, José R. Romero, G. Ingrid J.G. Rours, Anne H. Rowley, Sharon L. Roy, Lorry G. Rubin, Guillermo M. Ruiz-Palacios, Lisa Saiman, Laura Sass, Jason B. Sauberan, Peter M. Schantz, Eileen Schneider, Gordon E. Schutze, Benjamin Schwartz, Heidi Schwarzwald, Kara N. Shah, Samir S. Shah, Andi L. Shane, Craig A. Shapiro, Eugene D. Shapiro, Umid M. Sharapov, Jana Shaw, George Kelly Siberry, Jane D. Siegel, Robert David Siegel, Nalini Singh, Upinder Singh, P. Brian Smith, John D. Snyder, David E. Soper, Mary Allen Staat, J. Erin Staples, Jeffrey R. Starke, William J. Steinbach, Ina Stephens, Joseph W. St. Geme, Bradley P. Stoner, Jonathan B. Strober, Kanta Subbarao, Deanna A. Sutton, Douglas Swanson, Leonel T. Takada, Jacqueline E. Tate, Robert V. Tauxe, Marc Tebruegge, Eyasu H. Teshale, George R. Thompson, Herbert A. Thompson, Richard B. Thomson, Emily A. Thorell, Rania A. Tohme, Robert W. Tolan, Philip Toltzis, James Treat, Stephanie B. Troy, Russell B. Van Dyke, Jorge J. Velarde, Jennifer Vodzak, Ellen R. Wald, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, A. Clinton White, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Harold C. Wiesenfeld, John V. Williams, Roxanne E. Williams, Rodney E. Willoughby, Craig M. Wilson, Sarah L. Wingerter, Jerry A. Winkelstein, Kimberly A. Workowski, Terry W. Wright, Pablo Yagupsky, Nada Yazigi, Catherine Yen, Edward J. Young, Andrea L. Zaenglein, and Theoklis E. Zaoutis

Published
2012
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7. Hemolysis and infection: categories and mechanisms of their interrelationship

Author

Frank E. Berkowitz

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), Male, Anemia, Hemolytic, business.industry, Anemia, Hemolytic disorder, Infant, Newborn, Hemolysin, Antimicrobial, medicine.disease, Infections, Hemolysis, Pathophysiology, Oxidative damage, Infectious Diseases, Anti-Infective Agents, Immunology, Medicine, Humans, Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune, business, Child, Oxidation-Reduction, Immune mechanisms
Abstract

Different cause-and-effect relationships between hemolytic and infectious processes are categorized in a clinically useful manner as follows: infections causing hemolysis by invasion of red blood cells (RBCs), by hemolysins, or by immune mechanisms; oxidative damage to RBCs during infections; hemolysis secondary to infection-induced pathologic processes; hemolytic effects of antimicrobial therapy; and predisposition of an individual to infection caused by an underlying hemolytic disorder or therapy for that disorder. The mechanisms of these interrelationships are discussed in detail.

Published
1991

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