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Aeromonas hydrophila is a gram-negative (GN) bacillus with an opportunistic potential in immunocompromised patients. They are ubiquitary in fresh and brackish water capable of infecting healthy and immunosuppressed patients. Clinical manifestations vary in healthy hosts compared to immunocompromised patients. Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) is an infrequent clinical presentation of A. hydrophila infection, even in immunosuppressed patients. It is also an uncommon cause of nosocomial and drowning-related pneumonia. Although a rare cause of CABP, the clinical course is fulminant with higher mortality due to lower clinical suspicion. Here, we present an immunocompromised 63-year-old Caucasian male with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presenting with acute A. hydrophila CABP with septic shock due to absolute neutropenia and lymphopenia. Introduction Aeromonas hydrophila is a gram-negative (GN) bacillus ubiquitous in soil habitats and fresh and brackish water....

Editor's note: This article is part 3 of the three-part investigative series Dodging Standards, which examines social services agencies hiring workers who don't meet minimum standards, systemic challenges in hiring for these positions, how other states avoid these concerns and what North Carolina could do differently. This project was made possible in part through financial backing from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Any North Carolina county could hire a social services director who does not meet minimum qualifications when qualified applicants are ready and able to work, and the state can do nothing to prevent it. If the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services discovers a director is not qualified, the agency may step in with policy guidance, training suggestions and evaluations — but it cannot remove an unqualified director. The Office of State Human Resources, which oversees recruitment and hiring for the state's workforc...

Patient characteristics From July 2013 to July 2020, a total of 1230 patients were diagnosed with acute cholangitis in our hospital. After applying the eligibility criteria, 424 patients were eventually selected for the study (Fig. 1). According to the culture results, no bacterial growth developed in 111 patients (26.2%) while it developed in 313 patients (73.8%). Among the patients with bacterial growth, 155 patients had only Gram-negative bacteria cultured (49.5%), 48 patients had only Gram-positive bacteria cultured (15.3%), and 110 patients had both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria cultured (35.1%). Comparing the baseline data of different culture results showed differences in gender, chronic renal insufficiency, cholecystectomy, biliary anastomosis, biliary tumors, recurrence, clinical symptoms of fever, and inappropriate antibiotic use. The baseline characteristics of patients with different culture results are summarized in Table 1. Fig. 1 Patient selection flo...

I n October 1990, a group of international researchers set a bold goal: to create a map of the DNA code that makes up the human genome. Each person has two sets of 3 billion bases, represented by the letters A, T, G and C, which are the unique set of instructions that guide their cells throughout life. "Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind," former President Bill Clinton proclaimed in a speech about the Human Genome Project. The final map and sequence was completed in 2003. "The first genome cost us about a billion dollars," says Dr. Eric Green, who worked on the project since its inception and has been the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for more than a decade. "Now when we sequence a person's genome, it's less than $1000, so that's a million-fold reduction." (The entire project came in around $2.7 billion, but that included sequencing different organisms, addi...

Introduction Septic acute kidney injury (SAKI) is an acute injury of renal function caused by severe infection, which rapidly decreases glomerular filtration rate in a short period of time, leading to accumulation of nitrogen metabolites, and the disorders of electrolyte and acid-base balance. 1 Significant increase in serum creatinine (Scr), plasma renal injury molecule 1 (pKIM-1) and plasma neutrophil gelatin-associated lipocalin (pNGAL) is an important basis for the diagnosis of SAKI. 2 It is widely known that sepsis is an important risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI) and an independent risk factor for death. 3 However, the current treatment of SAKI is still based on renal replacement therapy, and there is a lack of corresponding effective therapeutic drugs. 4 Therefore, the research and development of new drugs to prevent and treat SAKI will effectively reduce the mortality of critical illness patients. Rhodiola is an herbal medicine of the Rosaceae Crassulaceae fam...

Situation Report | September 20, 2021       News features HCA, URMC, HCR Home Care and HCA Patient Shining Star Awardee   Drawing attention to the severity of sepsis for patients and the health care system, WROC News Rochester aired special coverage last week, focusing on this number one cost, number one killer and number one cause of hospital readmissions in the health care system.     HCA President Al Cardillo, University of Rochester Medical Center Medical Director Dr. Thomas Caprio, HCR Home Care Director for Clinical Innovation Christopher Chimenti and HCA 2021 Shining Star patient awardee and current project grant consultant, Jillian Thibeau, covered an array of sepsis facts and experience for WROC anchor Chrisitan Garzone.   ...

A California company says it can decipher almost all the DNA code of a days-old embryo created through in vitro fertilization (IVF)—a challenging feat because of the tiny volume of genetic material available for analysis. The advance depends on fully sequencing both parents' DNA and "reconstructing" an embryo's genome with the help of those data. And the company suggests it could make it possible to forecast risk for common diseases that develop decades down the line. Currently, such genetic risk prediction is being tested in adults, and sometimes offered clinically. The idea of applying it to IVF embryos has generated intense scientific and ethical controversy. But that hasn't stopped the technology from galloping ahead. Heart conditions, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and many other adult ailments have complex and often mysterious origins, fueled by a mix of genetic and environmental influences. Hundreds of variations in the human genome can collectively raise o...

Aeromonas hydrophila is a gram-negative (GN) bacillus with an opportunistic potential in immunocompromised patients. They are ubiquitary in fresh and brackish water capable of infecting healthy and immunosuppressed patients. Clinical manifestations vary in healthy hosts compared to immunocompromised patients. Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) is an infrequent clinical presentation of A. hydrophila infection, even in immunosuppressed patients. It is also an uncommon cause of nosocomial and drowning-related pneumonia. Although a rare cause of CABP, the clinical course is fulminant with higher mortality due to lower clinical suspicion. Here, we present an immunocompromised 63-year-old Caucasian male with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presenting with acute A. hydrophila CABP with septic shock due to absolute neutropenia and lymphopenia. Introduction Aeromonas hydrophila is a gram-negative (GN) bacillus ubiquitous in soil habitats and fresh and brackish water....