An 8-year-old girl presented to an outside community emergency department (ED) with 2 weeks of joint pain impeding her ability to walk and progressive abdominal pain.
A 7-year-old boy presented with a 3-week history of an ulcerated vesicle on his left cheek, left-sided facial swelling, and left submandibular lymphadenopathy after being scratched by a kitten. The swelling...
A previously healthy and fully vaccinated 3-year-old girl was brought to the emergency department with a 7-day history of daily fever (up to 40 °C, axillary), a rash on her face and extremities, peeling of...
About 1.9 million people worldwide are affected by this bacterium, which is the leading cause of blindness from an infectious disease. Do you know which bacterium it is?
A 24-month-old boy presents with his parents to the pediatric clinic with an ear infection for the fourth time in the past year. The parents ask if there are any other treatments that may work better at...
The ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis outlines new recommendations for the intensive and continuation phases of treatment. Do you know the...
A 19-year-old man on active military duty presented with a nonhealing ulcer on his dorsal right hand accompanied by enlarging nodules in a linear distribution on his right arm and forearm.
In our latest interactive quiz, we describe the case of a 69-year-old woman who presented with a pruritic rash involving her eyebrows, associated with lymphadenopathy of her face and neck. Can you make the...
In this video, Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH, reviews his recent study that compared two well-known preoperative skin antisepsis solutions with alcohol for patients with either closed or open extremity...
In this video, Dana Orange, MD, MSc, and William H. Robinson, MD, PhD, discuss their study, “Oral mucosal breaks trigger anti-citrullinated bacterial and human protein antibody responses in rheumatoid...
In this interview, Jacob C. Jentzer, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota discusses the implications of his study and...
In this Consultant Case Report Insights, Felicia Cooper, MD, and Drew Burgess speak about their study, "Slide Injury Leading to Bacteremia and Sepsis in a Pediatric Patient.” Dr Cooper and Ms Burgess...
In this podcast, Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, talks about how the causative agents of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) are identified and how patient characteristics and type of bacteria affect...