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We have presented a case of tracheobronchitis due to C pseudodiphtheriticum in a patient with COPD who was treated with prednisone and apparently was not otherwise immunocompromised. Chronic lung disease seems to predispose to infection with C pseudodiphtheriticum; it can also occur in the immunocompetent host. This organism, when isolated in pure culture, should not be dismissed as a contaminant, but must be considered a possible etiologic agent. Sensitivity of diphtheroids to antibiotics is extremely variable. We believe vancomycin should be used in respiratory tract infections caused by diphtheroids, including C pseudodiphtheriticum, until the results of in vitro antibiotic susceptibility tests are available.
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
February 1986,
New York state journal of medicine,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
February 2003,
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T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
May 1986,
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
April 2016,
Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
January 1997,
Emerging infectious diseases,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
December 1992,
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
July 1994,
Pathology,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
August 1996,
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan),
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
January 1998,
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica,
T J Craig, and
F E Maguire, and
M R Wallace
May 2023,
The new microbiologica,
