Document 0270
 DOCN  M95A0270
 TI    Case reports: pericarditis and lymphadenitis due to Rhodococcus equi.
 DT    9510
 AU    Lee-Chiong T; Sadigh M; Simms M; Buller G; Department of Internal
       Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New; Haven, Connecticut, USA.
 SO    Am J Med Sci. 1995 Jul;310(1):31-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95328569
 AB    Most patients with Rhodococcus equi infection are immunocompromised by
       either HIV infection, malignancy, or medication. Diagnosis is frequently
       missed or delayed because the organisms, resembling diphtheroids on
       smears, may be regarded as contaminants. Their clinical, pathologic,
       histochemical, and microbiologic resemblance to mycobacteria can result
       in misdiagnosis. Two cases were seen recently in our institution. R.
       equi pericarditis developed in a 29-year-old woman with failed renal
       transplant and R. equi axillary lymphadenitis developed in an
       asymptomatic 27-year-old man. These patients are important because the
       former is the first reported case of R. equi pericarditis, and the
       second case was unusual because of the absence of immunocompromise.
 DE    Actinomycetales Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  Adult  Case Report  Female
       Human  Lymphadenitis/*ETIOLOGY/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY  Male
       Pericarditis/*ETIOLOGY/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/RADIOGRAPHY  Rhodococcus
       equi/*ISOLATION & PURIF  Tomography, X-Ray Computed  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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