Electronic Resource
Springer
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases
12 (1993), S. 114-118
ISSN:
1435-4373
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Four cases of infection withMycobacterium haemophilum occurred at a single hospital in a seven-month period. Only 22 cases have been reported since 1976. All four patients were immunocompromised; two had AIDS and two were the first known recipients of allogeneic bone marrow transplants (BMT) to develop the infection. One BMT recipient died ofMycobacterium haemophilum pneumonia. The organism requires hemin or ferric ammonium citrate and incubation of media at 30 °C for optimum growth. Clinicians and microbiologists should consider infection withMycobacterium haemophilum, particularly when specimens are from immuno-compromised patients with unexplained illness and/or when acid-fast bacilli are seen on smear.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01967586
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