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Branhamella catarrhalis pneumonia with bacteremia
1Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
Southern Medical Journal
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
A woman with diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease developed pneumonia and bacteremia from Branhamella catarrhalis. This is only the fifth reported case of pneumonia with bacteremia due to this organism, which was previously considered normal upper airway flora.
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