Sepsis from Rhodococcus equi successfully treated in a kidney transplant recipient

Abstract

A 48-year-old male renal transplant recipient was admitted because of chest pain, dyspnea, cough and fever lasting 4 weeks. Rhodococcus equi was first described in 1923 as during the night, with weakness, pain on the left side Corynebacterium equi by Magnusson, who isolated it of the chest with submammary irradiation, and fascicfrom the lungs of 10 foals with pneumonia. The first ulations. Broad spectrum antibiotic and analgesic drug case of human disease from R. equi was reported in therapy were unsuccessful, as well as paravertebral 1967 by Golub et al. who described cavitary pneumonia (D8-D9) injections of steroids and anaesthetic drugs. in a steroid-treated patient aected by plasma cell A thoracic radiograph revealed an opacity in the mid hepatitis