Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, SP, Brasil.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2010 Mar;105(2):199-202. doi: 10.1590/s0074-02762010000200015.
Rhodococcus equi has emerged as an opportunistic pathogen associated with pulmonary, invasive or systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. We report the identification of 51 R. equi isolates found in sputum samples of 546 individuals suspected to have pulmonary tuberculosis in two Public Health Hospital Units in Brazil. The epidemiology of R. equi infection as well as the phenotypic identification and drug susceptibility profile of isolates are described in this paper.
马红球菌已成为与免疫功能低下患者的肺部、侵袭性或全身性感染相关的机会性病原体。我们报告了在巴西两个公共卫生医院单位的 546 例疑似肺结核患者的痰样本中发现的 51 株马红球菌分离株的鉴定结果。本文描述了马红球菌感染的流行病学以及分离株的表型鉴定和药敏谱。
