Persistently positive culture of antimicrobial-susceptible despite appropriate therapy.

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Monash Infectious Diseases, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

Published: March 2020

is a well-known cause of pneumonia that is infrequently cultured in clinical practice. We report a case of an immunocompromised patient with persistently positive cultures from invasive respiratory samples despite prolonged treatment with appropriate antibiotics. testing showed that the isolate remained susceptible to ciprofloxacin and azithromycin.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494184PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000113DOI Listing

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