Invasive pneumococcal disease in a traveler who returned from the Philippines: a case report and in vivo study of the isolate.
A 54-year-old Japanese man without underlying disease developed pneumococcal bacteremia and meningitis after traveling to the Philippines. The isolate demonstrated high affinity to the lung and invasiveness in vivo. The international travelers can import indigenous high virulent strains even if the bacterium is commonly isolated in the home country.
Morinaga
Yoshitomo
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Yanagihara
Katsunori
K
Masunaga
Kenji
K
Hashiguchi
Michitoshi
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Okamura
Takashi
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Watanabe
Hiroshi
H
Kohno
Shigeru
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Kamihira
Shimeru
S
D000818:Animals; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D051379:Mice; D008875:Middle Aged; D010679:Philippines; D012703:Serotyping; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014195:Travel