Background: Ceftriaxone or cefotaxime has been the drug of choice to treat spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) for many years, but little is known about microbiology, resistance rate to cephalosporines, and clinical outcomes over the last few decades. Our study aimed to describe the clinical and microbiological characteristics of culture-positive SBP at University of Kentucky Hospital. [...]

Case Presentation: A 20 year-old IVDU female presented with 3 days of left eye pain and redness to an urgent ophthalmologist visit. She was found to have left eye retinal whitening superior to the macula to which vitreous tap was performed. Patient started on empiric treatment with injection of vancomycin, ceftriaxone, and voriconazole. Vitreous fluid [...]

Case Presentation: A 72-year-old female was referred to the emergency department after being found to be neutropenic with an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 165/mm^3 on outpatient laboratory analysis. She had been admitted one month earlier for septic arthritis of the left knee and was discharged on ceftriaxone 2g daily via peripheral indwelling catheter. Her [...]

Case Presentation: A 60-year-old male with history of diabetes mellitus, right foot osteomyelitis, psoriasis, and multiple medication allergies (including vancomycin, levofloxacin, daptomycin, ertapenem, ampicillin-sulbactam, and infliximab) presented to the hospital with complaint of jaundice, abdominal pain, and vomiting. He had been diagnosed one week prior with methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus septic arthritis and was being [...]

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male with multiple medical conditions presented to the Emergency Room (ER) for evaluation of worsening skin rash and bleeding gums. The patient was discharged from the hospital 3 days ago and treated for an infected left prosthetic knee joint, he initially received empiric antibiotics Vancomycin and Piperacillin-Tazobactam, Cultures from tissue sample [...]