Lung abscess caused by Rhodococcus equi in a patient with advanced retroviral disease

Rhodococcus equi is a Gram‐positive coccobacillus bacterium commonly found on dry surface soil of farming and livestock properties. This organism is a rare cause of subacute, necrotizing infection, and mostly causes cavitary pneumonia and lung abscess, especially in immunocompromised hosts with adva...

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Autores principales: Chang, Chee Yik, Ong, Edmund L. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9290771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35865762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6073
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description Rhodococcus equi is a Gram‐positive coccobacillus bacterium commonly found on dry surface soil of farming and livestock properties. This organism is a rare cause of subacute, necrotizing infection, and mostly causes cavitary pneumonia and lung abscess, especially in immunocompromised hosts with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
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spelling pubmed-92907712022-07-20 Lung abscess caused by Rhodococcus equi in a patient with advanced retroviral disease Chang, Chee Yik Ong, Edmund L. C. Clin Case Rep Case Images Rhodococcus equi is a Gram‐positive coccobacillus bacterium commonly found on dry surface soil of farming and livestock properties. This organism is a rare cause of subacute, necrotizing infection, and mostly causes cavitary pneumonia and lung abscess, especially in immunocompromised hosts with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9290771/ /pubmed/35865762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6073 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://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_full_unstemmed Lung abscess caused by Rhodococcus equi in a patient with advanced retroviral disease
title_short Lung abscess caused by Rhodococcus equi in a patient with advanced retroviral disease
title_sort lung abscess caused by rhodococcus equi in a patient with advanced retroviral disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9290771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35865762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6073
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