Severe respiratory infection with Branhamella catarrhalis in an African child.
A pure growth of Branhamella catarrhalis was obtained from a purulent bronchial exudate in a 28-month-old Rwandese girl, hospitalized for acute inspiratory dyspnoea with fever. The outcome was favourable under treatment with ampicillin, although the isolate was shown to produce a beta-lactamase in vitro.
D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001980:Bronchi / Q000382:microbiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009343:Neisseria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D012432:Rwanda; D013492:Suppuration / Q000382:microbiology
D000667:Ampicillin