Co-infection of Sarcina and Giardia in a child

Abstract

We present a case of 3-year-old boy who presented with vomiting and chronic diarrhoea, and the duodenal biopsy showed the presence of both Giardia and Sarcina. The clinical and pathological significance of Sarcina remains unknown in human beings and its co-existence with Giardia has not been reported.

Coinfection of Sarcina ventriculi and Candida in a patient of gastric outlet obstruction: An overloaded pyloric antrum

“…Coinfection of S. ventriculi with Giardia , Helicobacter pylori , and Candida has been rarely reported . Our patient also harbored coexistent Candidiasis with S. ventriculi .…”

“…In this case, chronic gastritis was noted. S. ventriculi has also been reported as an incidental finding in patients of hepatitis and adenocarcinoma …”

“…2 Since then, there have been occasional case reports documenting the presence of this coccus in a myriad of clinical scenarios like incidental finding with adenocarcinoma, coinfection with other organisms, delayed gastric emptying, emphysematous gastritis, and perforation. 1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] We present a case of a 45-year-old lady, who presented with features of gastric outlet obstruction and was incidentally found to harbor S. ventriculi.…”

Emphysematous abomasitis in a lamb by bacteria of the Sarcina genus in Southern Brazil

“…In this report the diagnosis was based on morphological findings, and was not carried out the bacterial isolation. In previous studies in animals and humans the histology and cytology methods have been often used because bacteria of Sarcina genus have an unique morphological feature that is not found in other agents, as well as its extremely difficult isolation of which in most cases revealed negative results (DEBEY et al, 1996;VATN et al, 2000;EDWARDS et al, 2008;KUMAR et al, 2014;BHAGAT et al, 2015;SOPHA et al, 2015). In a previous study, 67 lambs with abomasal disease (abomasal bloat or rupture) and 45 healthy lambs were analyzed histopathologically, and the study found bacteria of the Sarcina genus in the abomasum of 53 lambs with abomasal disease and the absence of this bacteria in the abomasum of healthy lambs, demonstrating a possible causal association between bacteria from the Sarcina genus and gas accumulation in the abomasum.…”

The significance of Sarcina in routine surgical pathology practice

“…The first case from India was reported by Louis et al . Following this, three successive reports of Sarcina in gastric aspirate, duodenal biopsy and lung resection were documented in India . This is possible due to the awareness among the surgical pathologists rather than an actual resurgence of Sarcina that has resulted in the recent publication surge.…”