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Empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection

We report the first case of thoracic empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection. A 65‐year‐old woman with a history of bronchiectasis presented with acute cough and phlegm. The patient reported dyspnoea and left chest pain accompanied by left pleural effusion, despite treatment with sita...

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Autores principales: Horio, Yukihiro, Shiraishi, Yoshiki, Watanabe, Nobuo, Inoue, Shigeaki, Imanishi, Tadashi, Asano, Koichiro
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Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.234
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author Horio, Yukihiro
Shiraishi, Yoshiki
Watanabe, Nobuo
Inoue, Shigeaki
Imanishi, Tadashi
Asano, Koichiro
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description We report the first case of thoracic empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection. A 65‐year‐old woman with a history of bronchiectasis presented with acute cough and phlegm. The patient reported dyspnoea and left chest pain accompanied by left pleural effusion, despite treatment with sitafloxacin. Curved Gram‐negative rods, eventually identified as C. curvus using 16S ribosomal RNA‐ and atpA‐specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing, were cultured in anaerobic condition of pleural effusion together with Peptostreptococci. The patient recovered after thoracic drainage and treatment with ampicillin/sulbactam and clindamycin. C. curvus, an anaerobe present in human oral cavity, can be associated with extra‐oral infections such as empyema.
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spelling pubmed-53913722017-04-14 Empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection Horio, Yukihiro Shiraishi, Yoshiki Watanabe, Nobuo Inoue, Shigeaki Imanishi, Tadashi Asano, Koichiro Respirol Case Rep Case Reports We report the first case of thoracic empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection. A 65‐year‐old woman with a history of bronchiectasis presented with acute cough and phlegm. The patient reported dyspnoea and left chest pain accompanied by left pleural effusion, despite treatment with sitafloxacin. Curved Gram‐negative rods, eventually identified as C. curvus using 16S ribosomal RNA‐ and atpA‐specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing, were cultured in anaerobic condition of pleural effusion together with Peptostreptococci. The patient recovered after thoracic drainage and treatment with ampicillin/sulbactam and clindamycin. C. curvus, an anaerobe present in human oral cavity, can be associated with extra‐oral infections such as empyema. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5391372/ /pubmed/28413685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.234 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_short Empyema associated with Campylobacter curvus infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.234
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