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Interstitial pulmonary inflammation due to Microbacterium sp. after heart transplantation.

Giammanco GM, Pignato S, Grimont PA, Grimont F, Santangelo C, Leonardi G, Giuffrida A, Legname V, Giammanco G

Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia G. D'Alessandro, Università di Palermo, I-90127 Palermo, Italy. g.m.giammanco@unipa.it

A coryneform bacterium was isolated from the bronchoalveolar aspirate of a patient with interstitial pulmonary inflammation. Commercial systems identified the isolate as Corynebacterium sp. or Aureobacterium sp./Corynebacterium aquaticum, but 16S rRNA gene analysis unequivocally attributed it to the genus Microbacterium. This represents the first documented case of Microbacterium pulmonary infection.

Published 14 February 2006 in J Med Microbiol, 55: 335-9.
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