A cavitary pneumonia caused by leptotrichia species in an immunocompetent patient

Leptotrichia species (LS) is an anaerobic Gram negative bacillus in the Bacteroidaceae family and part of the normal human oral flora. It is rarely pathogenic, but occasionally causes diseases in immunocompromised hosts. I am reporting a case of cavitary pneumonia caused by LS in an immunocompetent...

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Autor principal: Lo, Tze Shien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24470931
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e24
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description Leptotrichia species (LS) is an anaerobic Gram negative bacillus in the Bacteroidaceae family and part of the normal human oral flora. It is rarely pathogenic, but occasionally causes diseases in immunocompromised hosts. I am reporting a case of cavitary pneumonia caused by LS in an immunocompetent host.
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spelling pubmed-38926572014-01-27 A cavitary pneumonia caused by leptotrichia species in an immunocompetent patient Lo, Tze Shien Infect Dis Rep Case Report Leptotrichia species (LS) is an anaerobic Gram negative bacillus in the Bacteroidaceae family and part of the normal human oral flora. It is rarely pathogenic, but occasionally causes diseases in immunocompromised hosts. I am reporting a case of cavitary pneumonia caused by LS in an immunocompetent host. PAGEPress Publications 2012-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3892657/ /pubmed/24470931 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e24 Text en ©Copyright Tze Shien Lo, 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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title_fullStr A cavitary pneumonia caused by leptotrichia species in an immunocompetent patient
title_full_unstemmed A cavitary pneumonia caused by leptotrichia species in an immunocompetent patient
title_short A cavitary pneumonia caused by leptotrichia species in an immunocompetent patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892657/
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