Enterococcus cecorum INFECTION IN TWO CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN AND IN TWO ADULT SEPTIC PATIENTS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Enterococcus cecorum is mostly found as normal gut flora in farm animals, especially pigs and poultry. However, sometimes it can cause extended infections and disease in those animals, as was recently reported in Canada where it caused arthritis and osteomyelitis in chickens. Until now, only a few reports have been published on Enterococcus cecorum as a potential pathogen in humans. We have reported 4 cases of infection with this rare human pathogen. The organism was proven in 2 blood samples from adult patients with sepsis and in 2 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples taken from children with external ventricular drainage (EVD) and diagnosed ventriculitis. In two cases (one child and one adult), other bacterial pathogens were also detected. The organism could not be cultivated and could only be identified with analysis of 16S rRNA gene PCR. The following molecular biomarkers were used to confirm the infection, and exclude sample contamination: white blood cell count, neutrophils, C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and presepsin (sCD14-ST). Enterococcus cecorum was identified as a pathogen with 16S rRNA gene PCR and could have caused the infection in all patients. We also suspected the first possible human-to-human transmission of bacteria from a mother to a newborn child.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".