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Refractory chronic pleurisy caused by Helicobacter equorum-like bacterium in a patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia.

ABSTRACT: We describe a 35-year-old man with X-linked agammaglobulinemia who had refractory chronic pleurisy caused by a Helicobacter equorum-like bacterium. Broad-range bacterial PCR targeting the 16S and 23S rRNA genes and in situ hybridization targeting the 16S rRNA gene of H. equorum confirmed the presence of this pathogen in a human for the first time.

SUBMITTER: Funato M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3165598 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Refractory chronic pleurisy caused by Helicobacter equorum-like bacterium in a patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia.

Funato Michinori M Kaneko Hideo H Ohkusu Kiyofumi K Sasai Hideo H Kubota Kazuo K Ohnishi Hidenori H Kato Zenichiro Z Fukao Toshiyuki T Kondo Naomi N

Journal of clinical microbiology 20110615 9

We describe a 35-year-old man with X-linked agammaglobulinemia who had refractory chronic pleurisy caused by a Helicobacter equorum-like bacterium. Broad-range bacterial PCR targeting the 16S and 23S rRNA genes and in situ hybridization targeting the 16S rRNA gene of H. equorum confirmed the presence of this pathogen in a human for the first time. ...[more]

PMID: 21677071

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