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Case Reports
. 1979 Apr;72(4):475-6.
doi: 10.1097/00007611-197904000-00026.

"Diphtheroid" pneumonia

N F Jacobs Jr, C A Perlino
Case Reports

"Diphtheroid" pneumonia

N F Jacobs Jr et al. South Med J. 1979 Apr.

Abstract

We have described a case of pneumonia caused by Corynebacterium CDC Group D2 which was diagnosed by Gram stain of a specimen obtained by transtracheal aspiration and recovery of the organisms from the aspirate specimen in pure culture. Treatment with penicillin was successful.

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