Acute necrotizing pneumonia caused by Enterobacter cloacae

Acute necrotizing pneumonia caused by Enterobacter cloacae

We have described a 55-year-old man with fever, productive cough, and a right upper lobe infiltrate, which subsequently cavitated. Cultures of bronchial secretions obtained by bronchoscopic protected brush catheter technique revealed Enterobacter cloacae, a previously unreported cause of acute necro...

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Veröffentlicht in:Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) Ala.), 1988-08, Vol.81 (8), p.1061-1062
Hauptverfasser: Broughton, W A, Kirkpatrick, M B
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acute Disease
Enterobacter - isolation & purification
Enterobacteriaceae Infections
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Necrosis
Pneumonia - epidemiology
Pneumonia - etiology
Pneumonia - pathology
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Zusammenfassung:We have described a 55-year-old man with fever, productive cough, and a right upper lobe infiltrate, which subsequently cavitated. Cultures of bronchial secretions obtained by bronchoscopic protected brush catheter technique revealed Enterobacter cloacae, a previously unreported cause of acute necrotizing pneumonia.
ISSN:0038-4348
DOI:10.1097/00007611-198808000-00031