Tropheryma whipplei-induced plastic bronchitis in children: a case report

Tropheryma whipplei-induced plastic bronchitis in children: a case report

This article reports a case of a 7-year-old child with severe pneumonia whose chest CT showed pulmonary consolidation, and bronchoscopy revealed plastic bronchitis. The metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of the pulmonary lavage fluid suggested the infection of Tropheryma whipplei (T whippl...

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Main Authors: Xuefeng Jin, Caiyun Zhang, Chao Chen, Xiaoning Wang, Jing Dong, Yuanyuan He, Peng Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
tropheryma whipplei
plastic bronchitis
children
piperacillin-tazobactam
neat-generation sequencing
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2023.1185519/full

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