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MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM CAUSING LYMPHADENITIS IN AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY CHILD
Author(s) -
Dawson David J.,
Blacklock Zeta M.,
Kane Donald W.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb128321.x
Subject(s) - fastidious organism , mycobacterium , lymph , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , biology , bacteria , tuberculosis , genetics
Suppurating submandibular lymphadenitis in an otherwise healthy infant was caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum , a fastidious organism which requires media supplemented with ferric ammonium citrate or haemoglobin for its growth. It is recommended that material from superficial lesions and lymph nodes collected for myco‐bacteriological investigations be cultured on media known to support growth of M. haemophilum.