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. 1989 May;27(5):818–820. doi: 10.1128/jcm.27.5.818-820.1989

Wound infection caused by Branhamella catarrhalis.

L D Gray 1, R E Van Scoy 1, J P Anhalt 1, P K Yu 1
PMCID: PMC267435  PMID: 2501347

Abstract

Branhamella catarrhalis was isolated from sputum, tracheal secretions, and a nonhealing and infected thoracic surgical wound in a 59-year-old woman who had a history of a chronic, interstitial fibrosis and who had undergone an open lung biopsy procedure. The patient's upper respiratory tract was the likely source of the organism. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a wound infection caused by B. catarrhalis.

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