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| A Case of Septic Pneumonia Secondary to community-acquired Campylobacter fetus Bacteremia |
| Ui Seok Kim/Jung Im Shin/Jong Wook Shin/Seong Gyun Kim/Yon Su Kim/Myong Don Oh/Eui Chong Kim*/Kang Won Choe |
| Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Nat ional University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Department of Clinical Pathology, Seoul Nat ional University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. |
Vol.34 Num.1 (p73~77)
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Campylobacter fetus has been increasingly associated with extraintestinal infections in patients with underlying diseases. Pulmonary involvement in human by this organism is rare. We report a case of septic pneumonia secondary to
community-acquired C. fetus bacteremia in a 67 year-old man with chronic renal failure.
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Keywords : Campylobacter fetus, Pneumonia, sepsis |
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