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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Interstitial pulmonary inflammation due to Microbacterium sp. after heart transplantation.

Francine GrimontCarmelita SantangeloAngelo GiuffridaVivian LegnamePatrick A. D. GrimontSarina PignatoGiuseppe GiammancoGiuseppe LeonardiGiovanni M. Giammanco

subject

Microbiology (medical)AdultDNA BacterialMalePathologymedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/07 - Microbiologia E Microbiologia Clinicamedicine.medical_treatmentMicrobacteriumMolecular Sequence DataInflammationMicrobiologyMicrobiologyRNA Ribosomal 16SActinomycetalesmedicineHumansPhylogenyHeart transplantationbiologyPulmonary inflammationGeneral MedicineMicrobacterium pulmonary inflammation heart transplantationPneumoniabiology.organism_classification16S ribosomal RNATransplantationCirculatory systemHeart Transplantationmedicine.symptomActinomycetales InfectionsBacteria

description

A coryneform bacterium was isolated from the bronchoalveolar aspirate of a patient with interstitial pulmonary inflammation. Commercial systems identified the isolate as Corynebacterium sp. or Aureobacterium sp./Corynebacterium aquaticum, but 16S rRNA gene analysis unequivocally attributed it to the genus Microbacterium. This represents the first documented case of Microbacterium pulmonary infection.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-02-16Journal of medical microbiology
10.1099/jmm.0.46219-0https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16476799