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. lact...

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Main Authors: Zavascki, Alexandre Prehn, Fritscher, Leandro, Superti, Silvana, Dias, Cícero, Kroth, Leonardo, Traesel, Moacir Alexandre, Antonello, Ivan Carlos Ferreira, Saitovitch, David
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2006
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489462/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16825411
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00274-06
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