Document 0457
 DOCN  M9490457
 TI    Rhodococcus equi infection: a cause of cavitary pulmonary disease in
       immuno-compromised patients.
 DT    9411
 AU    Nzerue C; Internal Medicine Department, Texas Tech University Health;
       Sciences Center, Lubbock 79430.
 SO    Cent Afr J Med. 1993 Dec;39(12):262-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94332900
 AB    Rhodococcus equi is a facultatively-aerobic, gram-positive and
       intracellular bacteria that causes pulmonary and disseminated infections
       in immuno-compromised patients. It is a common agent that causes
       pneumonia in farm animals and only rarely is transmitted to man. I
       report a case of pneumonia caused by this agent in a patient with AIDS
       who had been misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and treated as such for five
       months before the correct diagnosis was made. The diagnosis should be
       suspected on clinical and radiologic grounds as treatment is
       considerably different from other opportunistic pathogens in AIDS.
 DE    Actinomycetales Infections/*DIAGNOSIS/DRUG THERAPY/MICROBIOLOGY  Adult
       Antibiotics/THERAPEUTIC USE  AIDS-Related Opportunistic
       Infections/*DIAGNOSIS/DRUG THERAPY/  MICROBIOLOGY  Case Report
       Diagnostic Errors  Human  *HIV-1  Male
       Pneumonia/DIAGNOSIS/*MICROBIOLOGY/THERAPY  *Rhodococcus equi  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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