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Stomatococcus mucilaginosus lower respiratory tract infection in a patient with AIDS
J G Cunniffe1, C Mallia, P A Alcock
1Public Health Laboratory, Central Pathology Laboratory, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
We describe a case of recurrent Stomatococcus mucilaginosus lower respiratory tract infection in a patient with AIDS. Apart from S. mucilaginosus no other pathogens were found to account for infection. There was a rapid response to rifampicin, the organism being resistant to penicillin, co-trimoxazole and ciprofloxacin. Infections caused by this organism are increasingly described, but there are few reports of lower respiratory tract infection.