Fukasawa Chie, Ohkusu Kiyofumi, Sanayama Yoshitami, Yasufuku Kazuhiro, Ishiwada Naruhiko, Ezaki Takayuki, Kohno Yoichi
Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
Department of Microbiology, Regeneration and Advanced Medical Science, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan.
J Med Microbiol. 2006 Jun;55(Pt 6):791-794. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.46356-0.
An unusual paediatric case of a bronchogenic cyst infected with both Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae is described, which was detected not by culture of the purulent cyst fluid, but by real-time PCR amplification for several potential pathogens of DNA extracted from the fluid.
