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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2003, p. 2255-2257, Vol. 41, No. 5
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2255-2257.2003
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CASE REPORT

Sepsis, Multiple Organ Failure, and Death Due to Pandoraea pnomenusa Infection after Lung Transplantation

Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine,¹ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina,³ Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan²

Received 19 September 2002/ Returned for modification 14 November 2002/ Accepted 25 January 2003

A 30-year-old man died with Pandoraea pnomenusa sepsis after lung transplantation. Pandoraea species are gram-negative rods, closely related to, and commonly misidentified as, Burkholderia cepacia complex or Ralstonia species. Heretofore considered soil bacteria and colonizers that infect patients with chronic lung diseases, Pandoraea species can produce severe infections.

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