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Case Reports
. 2006 Jul;44(7):2666-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00274-06.

First case report of Neisseria lactamica causing cavitary lung disease in an adult organ transplant recipient

Alexandre Prehn Zavascki  1 , Leandro Fritscher, Silvana Superti, Cícero Dias, Leonardo Kroth, Moacir Alexandre Traesel, Ivan Carlos Ferreira Antonello, David Saitovitch
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First case report of Neisseria lactamica causing cavitary lung disease in an adult organ transplant recipient

Alexandre Prehn Zavascki et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Jul.

Abstract

We describe a case of an adult organ recipient patient with a pulmonary cavitary lesion due to Neisseria lactamica, a harmless commensal organism that rarely causes human infection. To our knowledge, this is the first report of pulmonary disease caused by this organism and the second case of N. lactamica infection in an adult patient.

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Chest X-ray image showing a right lower lobe opacity.
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Cavitary lesion at the anterior and lateral basal segments transition of the right lower lung lobe on chest X-ray (A) and computed tomographic (B) images.
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