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Community‐acquired pseudomonas pneumonia in a normal host complicated by metastatic panophthalmitis and cutaneous pustules
Author(s) -
Quirk J. A.,
Beaman M. H.,
Blake M.
Publication year - 1990
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.1445-5994.1990.tb01033.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , pseudomonas aeruginosa , pathogen , disease , endophthalmitis , host (biology) , dermatology , pathology , immunology , bacteria , surgery , biology , genetics , ecology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a frequent pathogen of patients with chronic underlying disease in the hospital environment. This organism is, however, an extremely rare cause of either community‐acquired pneumonia in a normal host, metastatic bacterial endophthalmitis or metastatic cutaneous pustules. We report here a case combining these three rare manifestations in a previously well young woman, to highlight the serious disease that may result from this pathogen and the difficulties of treatment.