First Case Report of Neisseria lactamica Causing Cavitary Lung Disease in an Adult Organ Transplant Recipient
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First case report of Neisseria lactamica causing cavitary lung disease in an adult organ transplant recipient.
We describe a case of an adult organ recipient patient with a pulmonary cavitary lesion due to Neisseria lactamica, a harmless commensal organism that rarely causes human infection. To our knowledge, this is the first report of pulmonary disease caused by this organism and the second case of N. lactamica infection in an adult patient.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00274-06