Background: Health care worker (HCW) uniforms become contaminated with bacteria during normal use, and this may contribute to hospital‐acquired infections. Antimicrobial uniforms are currently marketed as a means of reducing this contamination. Our objective was to compare the extent of bacterial contamination of HCW uniforms and skin when they wore 1 of 2 antimicrobial scrubs […]

Background: Legionella pneumophilia is typically transmitted via inhalation aerosols derived from water or soil during outbreaks or be acquired sporadically, commonly causing community-acquired or nosocomial pneumonia1,2. Death occurs through progressive respiratory failure, shock and multiorgan failure3,4. Epidemiological data for in-patient Legionella in the United States (U.S.) is lacking. The objective of the study is to […]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 60-year-old male with chronic mixed systolic and diastolic heart failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) who was admitted to general medicine due to a 4-week history of progressive dyspnea and lower extremity edema, concerning for a heart failure exacerbation. Eight days into his hospital […]

Case Presentation: A 65‐year‐old man with a 50‐pack‐year smoking history but no known chronic medical problems presented to the emergency department with eight days of left retro‐orbital pain and frontal headache and five days of diplopia and left ptosis. Within the past few days, a neurologist had started topiramate, without effect on his symptoms. Exam […]

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old woman was admitted for recurrent multifocal cerebral infarction. She had five episodes of consecutive strokes involving different vascular territories over 8 months resulting in expressive aphasia, visual deficits, and extremity weakness. All laboratory and urine studies, including autoimmune and hypercoaguable workup were unremarkable. Treponema and HIV serologies were negative. Initial cerebral […]

Case Presentation: 56-year-old female presented to ED with a two-week history of fever, chills, headache, intermittent nausea and vomiting, mild abdominal pain. Her comorbidities included Diabetes mellitus, Morbid obesity, and Hypertension. She had mild leukocytosis on complete blood count and had physical examination significant for bilateral rhonchi in chest auscultation. She was admitted under the […]