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COMMUNITY‐ACQUIRED ACINETOBACTER PNEUMONIA
Author(s) -
GOTTLIEB T.,
BARNES D. J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1989.tb00260.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fulminant , pneumonia , intensive care medicine , community acquired pneumonia , diabetes mellitus , presentation (obstetrics) , disease , acinetobacter , new guinea , lung disease , pediatrics , lung , surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , history , ethnology , biology , endocrinology
We describe the first case report of community‐acquired Acinetobacter pneumonia in Australia. Well recognised risk factors for this entity (alcoholism, diabetes mellitus and chronic lung disease) were present in our patient. His pneumonia ran a fulminant course, with death occurring within 24 hours of presentation to hospital. Whilst rare, this infection is being described with increasing frequency, particularly in developing countries including Papua New Guinea.