Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that rarely causes pneumonia in otherwise healthy patients. We describe a case of community-acquired P. aeruginosa pneumonia in a previously healthy individual who likely acquired the infection from a home humidifier.

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Autores principales: Woods, Eric, Cohen, Gabriel, Bressman, Eric, Lin, David, Zeitouni, Nathalie E., Beckford, Colleen, Hamula, Camille, van Bakel, Harm, Sullivan, Mitchell, Altman, Deena R., Caplivski, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29527364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5474916
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author Woods, Eric
Cohen, Gabriel
Bressman, Eric
Lin, David
Zeitouni, Nathalie E.
Beckford, Colleen
Hamula, Camille
van Bakel, Harm
Sullivan, Mitchell
Altman, Deena R.
Caplivski, Daniel
author_facet Woods, Eric
Cohen, Gabriel
Bressman, Eric
Lin, David
Zeitouni, Nathalie E.
Beckford, Colleen
Hamula, Camille
van Bakel, Harm
Sullivan, Mitchell
Altman, Deena R.
Caplivski, Daniel
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description Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that rarely causes pneumonia in otherwise healthy patients. We describe a case of community-acquired P. aeruginosa pneumonia in a previously healthy individual who likely acquired the infection from a home humidifier.
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spelling pubmed-57630932018-03-11 Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier Woods, Eric Cohen, Gabriel Bressman, Eric Lin, David Zeitouni, Nathalie E. Beckford, Colleen Hamula, Camille van Bakel, Harm Sullivan, Mitchell Altman, Deena R. Caplivski, Daniel Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that rarely causes pneumonia in otherwise healthy patients. We describe a case of community-acquired P. aeruginosa pneumonia in a previously healthy individual who likely acquired the infection from a home humidifier. Hindawi 2017 2017-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5763093/ /pubmed/29527364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5474916 Text en Copyright © 2017 Eric Woods et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Woods, Eric
Cohen, Gabriel
Bressman, Eric
Lin, David
Zeitouni, Nathalie E.
Beckford, Colleen
Hamula, Camille
van Bakel, Harm
Sullivan, Mitchell
Altman, Deena R.
Caplivski, Daniel
Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title_full Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title_fullStr Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title_full_unstemmed Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title_short Community-Acquired Cavitary Pseudomonas Pneumonia Linked to Use of a Home Humidifier
title_sort community-acquired cavitary pseudomonas pneumonia linked to use of a home humidifier
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29527364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5474916
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