Otro
Rhodococcus equi isolation from sputum of patients with suspected tuberculosis
Registro en:
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, v. 105, n. 2, p. 199-202, 2010.
0074-0276
10.1590/S0074-02762010000200015
S0074-02762010000200015
WOS:000277152900015
S0074-02762010000200015.pdf
Autor
Silva, Paulo da
Miyata, Marcelo
Sato, Daisy Nakamura
Santos, Adolfo Carlos Barreto
Mendes, Natália Helena
Leite, Clarice Queico Fujimura
Resumen
Rhodococcus equi has emerged as an opportunistic pathogen associated with pulmonary, invasive or systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. We report the identification of 51 R. equi isolates found in sputum samples of 546 individuals suspected to have pulmonary tuberculosis in two Public Health Hospital Units in Brazil. The epidemiology of R. equi infection as well as the phenotypic identification and drug susceptibility profile of isolates are described in this paper. Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)