Pneumatocele formation in a fatal adult pneumonia patient coinfected with Streptococcus pyogenes emm-type 3 and influenza A: a case report.

Masahiro SanoAya ShimamotoNozomi UekiMotohiro SekinoHiroshi NakaokaMasahiro TakakiYoshiro YamashitaTakeshi TanakaKonosuke MorimotoKatsunori YanagiharaMasahiro NakashimaKazuto AshizawaKoya Ariyoshi

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2020)

There have been no previous reports of a pneumatocele complicated by S. pyogenes in an adult patient coinfected with influenza A. Further molecular investigation revealed that the S. pyogenes isolate had the sequence type of emm3.

Keyphrases

case report
staphylococcus aureus
pseudomonas aeruginosa
cystic fibrosis
acute respiratory distress syndrome
electronic health record