Community-acquired Burkholderia cepacia pneumonia is uncommon. We report a 32-year-old female who was on oral erlotinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for 2 years for her lung cancer and developed community-acquired Burkholderia cepacia pneumonia, which was confirmed by blood culture. The patient improved with antibiotics.
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