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Biliary tract infection caused by Haemophilus parainfluenzae
1Research Unit, Hospital Xeral-Cies, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Clínica Fatima, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|August 14, 1999
Abstract:
Haemophilus parainfluenzae was isolated from the bile specimens of 2 patients with acute cholecystitis. The strains were genetically unrelated by the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). The 2 H. parainfluenzae strains represented 11.7% of all positive bile cultures inoculated in blood culture bottles. The routine inoculation of bile specimens in media able to support growth of Haemophilus species should be considered.