A Case of Branhamella Catarrhalis Pneumonia

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  • HIROTA Masaki
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • TOMONAGA Akimitsu
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • KOMORI Kiyotaka
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • IZUMIKAWA Kinichi
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • HORIUCHI Nobuhiro
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • NAKATOMI Masao
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • NASU Masaru
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • SAITO Atsushi
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • HARA Kohei
    2nd Department of Internal Mediicne, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • ISHIKAWA Hisashi
    Nagasaki Municipal Hospital

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  • Branhamella catarrhalis (Neisseria catarrhalis) 肺炎の1例
  • Branhamella catarrhalis Neisseria catar

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Abstract

A 80 year-old man was diagnosed as having gastric cancer by an upper G. I. series. During the course of the therapy with blood transfusion and predonisolone, acute pneumonia developed. A gram stain on direct smears from the sputum revealed numerous gram -negative diplococci in the polymorphonuclear cells and culture of the specimen yielded abundant colonies of Brahna-mella catarrhalis.<BR>Carbenicillin and cephalothin were effective against that pneumonia, but soon after slight improvement, E. coli pneumonia developed and the patient died<BR>Neeled biopsy specimen of the lung revealed the histological picutre of bonchopneumonia

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  • Kansenshogaku Zasshi

    Kansenshogaku Zasshi 52 (11), 497-502, 1978

    The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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