RESUMO
Roseomonas are nonfermenting opportunistic Gram-negative bacilli belonging to the newly established genus of Roseomonas. The clinical experience with the species is limited and is difficult to diagnose because of limited expertise and lack of commercially available identification kits with any of the automated systems. This is a first ever reported case of secondary bacterial infection due to Roseomonas genomospecies 6 in a patient of pulmonary tuberculosis from the Indian subcontinent.
Assuntos
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolamento & purificação , Nocardiose/complicações , Nocardiose/diagnóstico , Nocardia/isolamento & purificação , Escarro/microbiologia , Tuberculose Pulmonar/complicações , Tuberculose Pulmonar/diagnóstico , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Nocardiose/patologia , Tuberculose Pulmonar/patologiaRESUMO
Relapsing fever is an acute febrile illness caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The high fevers of presenting patients spontaneously abate and then recur. Here we report a 50-year-old woman having relapsing fever associated with thrombocytopenia. Giemsa staining of peripheral blood smear revealed spiral organisms morphologically resembling Borrelia. A rare case of relapsing fever which was successfully treated with doxycycline is discussed.
