Germs, Volume 13, Issue 2

The scenario of millions of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic since its emergence was horrifying, the bitter truth that a virus suddenly overwhelmed the entire world, and humanity was incapable of dealing with it for a long time [...]

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Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is a viral disease with primary pulmonary involvement and systemic impact. This article aims to assess the importance of clinical, biological, demographic and radioi...

Introduction: Infectious vaginitis is prevalent in developing countries. Most of the females suffer from vaginal infections at least once per lifetime. Due to limited resources, many infections are misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. Good diagnosis of these...

Introduction: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria complicate treatment options in neonatal sepsis, especially in developing countries. This study determined the epidemiology and bacteriological characteristics of neonatal sepsis at a tertiary hospital, in...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of Corynebacterium striatum prosthetic joint infections (PJI) to determine if an increase has occurred recently. Moreover, susceptibility testing was conducted on C. striatum preserved i...

Introduction: The HIV/AIDS prevention program among pregnant mothers aims to reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to baby. It also aims to reduce stigma and discrimination, as well as deaths due to HIV/AIDS. This paper aimed to find out ob...

Introduction: Co-infection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with syphilis is common and has significant clinical consequences. HIV infection can change the course and clinical manifestations of syphilis, resulting in atypical syphilis. A rare fe...

Introduction: Bordetella bronchiseptica is a rare cause of hemorrhagic bronchopneumonia. Important to the clinician is a clear understanding that the treatment of this rare organism differs greatly from the successful antibiotic treatment of the more...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is currently undergoing a worrying recovery in Morocco. It is becoming a tropical disease again and can take deceptive clinical forms and involve unusual localizations. We report a rare case of pancreatic abscess due to Myc...

Introduction: There are very few reported cases of Whipple disease (WD), a rare chronic disease in Greece. In this report, we present a classic WD case in a Greek firefighter and the detection of an autochthonous Tropheryma whipplei genotype in this...

The advent of the vaccination era has completely changed the landscape of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD), making control and even elimination of certain infectious diseases a reality [...]

Introduction: Bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit have always been a global healthcare challenge. The present study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the yearly trend of antibiotic resistance in non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli...