Affiliation:
1. Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
Abstract
ABSTRACT
A 65-year-old woman with a history of gastric bleeding, breast cancer, antineoplastic chemotherapy, and prednisone use presented with a fever, chest pain, a dry cough, hypotension, and prominent pulmonary bronchovascular markings. She was treated with piperacillin-tazobactam and azithromycin and rapidly improved. Six days later, the blood culture grew a pleomorphic Gram-negative bacillus. Initial subculture failed, but the organism was identified as
Helicobacter pylori
by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene. The bacterium eventually grew on brucella agar upon extended incubation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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