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Rhodococcus equi causing human pulmonary infection: review of 29 cases
J A Lasky1, N Pulkingham, M A Powers
1Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
Southern Medical Journal
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Rhodococcus equi is a gram-positive pleomorphic bacillus that has been identified as a life-threatening pulmonary pathogen in the immunocompromised host. Infection with R equi may go unrecognized by physicians unacquainted with its presentation and unaware of the organism's ability to mimic diphtheroids and to stain weakly positive with an acid-fast stain.