Barnham M, Bradwell R A
Department of Microbiology, Harrogate General Hospital, North Yorkshire.
J Laryngol Otol. 1992 Nov;106(11):1000-1. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100121590.
A patient is reported with a peritonsillar abscess yielding Arcanobacterium haemolyticum. This appears to be only the fifth such case described in the medical literature and the first from Europe. The organism has been reported as an occasional cause of tonsillopharyngitis with rash, resembling infection with Streptococcus pyogenes but often unresponsive to penicillin therapy. A. haemolyticum easily passes unrecognized in bacteriological cultures as a result of its slow growth, coryneform appearance in the Gram's stain and weak haemolytic activity on conventional laboratory media.
报告了一名患有扁桃体周围脓肿且分离出溶血隐秘杆菌的患者。这似乎是医学文献中描述的第五例此类病例，也是欧洲的首例。该菌曾被报道为伴有皮疹的扁桃体咽炎的偶发病因，类似于化脓性链球菌感染，但通常对青霉素治疗无反应。由于溶血隐秘杆菌生长缓慢、革兰氏染色呈棒状杆菌形态且在传统实验室培养基上溶血活性较弱，因此在细菌培养中很容易未被识别。
