Camp M, Mehta J B, Whitson M
Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City 37601.
Chest. 1987 Dec;92(6):1107-8. doi: 10.1378/chest.92.6.1107.
This report describes a patient with right lower lung (RLL) pneumonia of a subacute nature. Sputum and bronchial washings both grew N asteroides. Open lung biopsy showed bronchiolitis obliterans. Both the clinical and radiologic picture dramatically improved during three weeks of treatment with trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (TMP - SMX), indicating the possibility that N asteroides infection contributed to bronchiolitis obliterans pneumonia in this patient.
