Rhodococcus equi isolation from sputum of patients with suspected tuberculosis

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Paulo Da Silva²  Marcelo Miyata¹  Daisy Nakamura Sato¹  Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos²  Natália Helena Mendes²  Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite² 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual Paulista Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas Araraquara SP ,Brasil

关键词: Rhodococcus equi;    identification;    tuberculosis;    antimicrobial profile;    epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762010000200015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

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.

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