A rare case of community acquired Burkholderia cepacia infection presenting as pyopneumothorax in an immunocompetent individual  

作　　者：Suman S Karanth Hariharan Regunath Kiran Chawla Mukhyaprana Prabhu 

机构地区：[1]Department of Medicine,Kasturba Medical College [2]Department of Medicine,University of Missouri [3]Department of Microbiology,Kasturba Medical College

出　　处：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》2012年第2期166-168,共3页亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）

摘　　要：Burkholderia cepacia(6.cepacia)infection is rarely reported in an immunocompetent host.It is a well known occurence in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic granulomatous disease where it increases both morbidity and mortality.It has also been included in the list of organisms causing nosocomial infections in an immunocompetent host,most of them transmitted from the immunocompromised patient in which this organism harbors.We report a rare case of isolation of B.cepacia from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of an immunocompetent agriculturist who presented with productive cough and fever associated with a pyopneumothorax.This is the first case of community acquired infection reported in an immunocompetent person in India.Burkholderia cepacia(B cepacia) infection is rarely reported in an immunocompetent host.It is a well known occurence in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic granulomatous disease where it increases both morbidity and mortality.It has also been included in the list of organisms causing nosocomial infections in an immunocompetent host,most of them transmitted from the immunocompromised patient in which this organism harbors.We report a rare case of isolation of B.cepacia from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of an immunocompetent agriculturist who presented with productive cough and fever associated with a pyopneumothorax.This is the first case ol community acquired infection reported in an immunocompetent person in India.

关 键 词：BURKHOLDERIA cepacia PYOPNEUMOTHORAX Community ACQUIRED IMMUNOCOMPETENT Agriculturist 

分 类 号：R519[医药卫生—内科学]