Disseminated Legionella micdadei infection in a liver transplant patient presenting as pulmonary nodules and a laryngeal lesion.
Legionella micdadei
liver transplant
molecular diagnostics
pulmonary nodules
Journal
Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society
ISSN: 1399-3062
Titre abrégé: Transpl Infect Dis
Pays: Denmark
ID NLM: 100883688
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
Historique:
revised:
04
11
2020
received:
07
08
2020
accepted:
22
12
2020
pubmed:
13
1
2021
medline:
3
8
2021
entrez:
12
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We report a liver transplant patient with disseminated Legionella micdadei infection with pulmonary, laryngeal, and suspected muscle involvement. This organism, which stains weakly acid-fast, primarily affects immunocompromised patients. The diagnosis is difficult to make; in this case, the organism was identified via molecular diagnostics on laryngeal and pulmonary biopsy tissue.
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e13563Informations de copyright
© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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