Brief tale of a bacteraemia by Rhodococcus equi with concomitant lung mass: what came first, the chicken or the egg?
| Autor: | Savini, Vincenzo, Salutari, Prassede, Sborgia, Marco, Mancini, Iole, Masciarelli, Gioviana, Catavitello, Chiara, Astolfi, Daniela, D’Amario, Claudio, Fioritoni, Giuseppe, Spadaro, Antonio, D’Antonio, Domenico |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Hematology Lung biology lcsh:RC633-647.5 Case Report lcsh:Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Bacterial Infection Leukemia Pulmunary Infiltration Phenotype Lymphoma Leukemia Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Internal medicine Concomitant Immunology medicine Rhodococcus equi Pathogen |
| Zdroj: | Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp e2011006-e2011006 (2011) Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: | 2035-3006 |
| Popis: | Rhodococcus equi is an uncommon Gram positive, variably acid-fast agent of infections, that appear as hard to treat mostly owing to the establishment of intracellular niches. Also, the lack of criteria to interpret susceptibility testing may lead to under-reporting or overestimation of resistance expression. Finally, the knowledge about this pathogen’s clinical impact may be affected by wrong characterization at a genus and species level provided by phenotype-based assays.We present the case of a bacteraemia with a concomitant lung mass in a lymphoma patient, that further highlights the emergence of rhodococcal diseases as a matter for concern in the field of infectious diseases and haematology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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