Delftia acidovorans is usually a nonpathogenic environmental organism, which is rarely clinically significant. This article documents a case of D acidovorans-associated pneumonia in a B cell lymphoblastic leukemia patient. The authors also provide a review of the literature regarding D acidovorans infection and discuss how unusual pathogens may be clinically significant in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients.

This study reports the association between BMD-SDS and insulin resistance in obese adolescents both with and without NAFLD, although the NAFLD group had a lower BMD-SDS than the non-NAFLD group. We suggest that NAFLD has a detrimental effect on bone health in adolescents, and it is correlated with increased insulin resistance.

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Highlights There are limited number of studies analyzing viral load in COVID19 patients and any data that compare viral load to chest computerized tomography (CT) severity. There are limited number of studies that give the amount of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in clinical specimens by reporting cycle threshold (Ct) value for RT-PCR. The total stress score (TSS) was suggested to quantify pulmonary inflammation and correlate to the clinical classifications. TSS is a quantification method to score the severity of inflammation on CT images based on summing up degree of acute lung inflammation lesions involvement of each lobe (including ground-glass opacity or consolidation or other fuzzy interstitial opacities). To our knowledge, this is the first study that analyse TSS of chest CT and Ct values of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both hospitalised and outpatients.

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