Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium mucifaciens has been mainly isolated from skin, blood and from other normally-sterile body fluids. It has rarely been described as a human pathogen since its description. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report the first case of cavitary pneumonia due to C. mucifaciens in an...

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Autores principales: Djossou, Félix, Bézian, Marie-Christine, Moynet, Daniel, Le Flèche-Matéos, Anne, Malvy, Denis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21162757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-355
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author Djossou, Félix
Bézian, Marie-Christine
Moynet, Daniel
Le Flèche-Matéos, Anne
Malvy, Denis
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Bézian, Marie-Christine
Moynet, Daniel
Le Flèche-Matéos, Anne
Malvy, Denis
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description BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium mucifaciens has been mainly isolated from skin, blood and from other normally-sterile body fluids. It has rarely been described as a human pathogen since its description. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report the first case of cavitary pneumonia due to C. mucifaciens in an immunocompetent man returning from Maghreb. CONCLUSION: C. mucifaciens should be considered as important human pathogen in patients with severe illness and compatible history of exposure even in individuals with no clearly identified immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-30096412010-12-24 Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia Djossou, Félix Bézian, Marie-Christine Moynet, Daniel Le Flèche-Matéos, Anne Malvy, Denis BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium mucifaciens has been mainly isolated from skin, blood and from other normally-sterile body fluids. It has rarely been described as a human pathogen since its description. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report the first case of cavitary pneumonia due to C. mucifaciens in an immunocompetent man returning from Maghreb. CONCLUSION: C. mucifaciens should be considered as important human pathogen in patients with severe illness and compatible history of exposure even in individuals with no clearly identified immunosuppression. BioMed Central 2010-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3009641/ /pubmed/21162757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-355 Text en Copyright ©2010 Djossou et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<url>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</url>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Djossou, Félix
Bézian, Marie-Christine
Moynet, Daniel
Le Flèche-Matéos, Anne
Malvy, Denis
Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title_full Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title_fullStr Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title_short Corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
title_sort corynebacterium mucifaciens in an immunocompetent patient with cavitary pneumonia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21162757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-355
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