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Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report

Rhodococcus equi is a conditionally pathogenic bacterium widely distributed in soil, water, and marine environments, which can cause respiratory infections, pleurisy, blood and even bone marrow infections in immunocompromised people, and particularly in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndro...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Yuhang, Li, Jian, Qin, Weichao, Gao, Yuan, Liao, Xin, Zeng, Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.982917
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author Jiang, Yuhang
Li, Jian
Qin, Weichao
Gao, Yuan
Liao, Xin
Zeng, Yan
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description Rhodococcus equi is a conditionally pathogenic bacterium widely distributed in soil, water, and marine environments, which can cause respiratory infections, pleurisy, blood and even bone marrow infections in immunocompromised people, and particularly in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This case report describes a patient with initially suspicion of tuberculosis (TB) as an outpatient in a TB clinic. However, laboratory findings identified R. equi in his sputum sample based on a positive acid-fast stain, which was highly suggestive of a pulmonary infection caused by R. equi. The patient was subsequently admitted to the respiratory unit for treatment. Once the source of infection was identified, the patient was treated with a combination of antibiotics for 2 weeks and was discharged with a significant improvement in symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-95216512022-09-30 Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report Jiang, Yuhang Li, Jian Qin, Weichao Gao, Yuan Liao, Xin Zeng, Yan Front Public Health Public Health Rhodococcus equi is a conditionally pathogenic bacterium widely distributed in soil, water, and marine environments, which can cause respiratory infections, pleurisy, blood and even bone marrow infections in immunocompromised people, and particularly in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This case report describes a patient with initially suspicion of tuberculosis (TB) as an outpatient in a TB clinic. However, laboratory findings identified R. equi in his sputum sample based on a positive acid-fast stain, which was highly suggestive of a pulmonary infection caused by R. equi. The patient was subsequently admitted to the respiratory unit for treatment. Once the source of infection was identified, the patient was treated with a combination of antibiotics for 2 weeks and was discharged with a significant improvement in symptoms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9521651/ /pubmed/36187656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.982917 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jiang, Li, Qin, Gao, Liao and Zeng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Jiang, Yuhang
Li, Jian
Qin, Weichao
Gao, Yuan
Liao, Xin
Zeng, Yan
Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title_full Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title_fullStr Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title_short Tuberculosis with cavities? Rapid diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: A case report
title_sort tuberculosis with cavities? rapid diagnosis of rhodococcus equi pulmonary infection with cavities by acid-fast staining: a case report
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.982917
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